| Description:
Adult male:
The forehead is greyish-white grading to bluish-grey
on the top of the head, nape and back of the neck. The
mantle is reddish-pink with greyish wash. The scapulars,
tertials, wing-coverts, back, rump, uppertail-coverts
and inner two pairs of rectrices are reddish-brown.
The outer three pairs of tail feathers are dark brown.
The tertials, outer scapulars and inner greater and
median wing-coverts have balckish-purple stripes on
the outerwebs. The chin and throat are white. The face,
sides of neck and breast are pale reddish-pink grading
to pinkish-brown on the belly, flanks and undertail-coverts.
The undertail are blackish-brown with whitish edgings.
The underwing-coverts and axillaries are black. The
underside of flight feathers are reddish-brown with
brown tips. The color of the iris is variable, dark
brown with red outer ring. There is a narrow grey eye-ring.
The bill is black. The legs and feet are reddish-pink.
Adult
female: Females are generally ashy grey-brown above
and paler ashy-grey below. The forehead is greyish-white
grading to greyish-brown on the top pf the head, back
of the neck, mantle and back to the inner rectrices.
The outer rectrices are dark brown with white tips.
The tertials and inner wing-coverts are ashy-brown grading
to more rufescent outer wing-coverts (covert and tertial
markings identical to those in male). The inner secondaries
are dull ashy-brown grading to red-brown outer secondaries
and primaries. The chin and throat are whitish grading
to ashy-grey on the neck and the breast, and to slightly
paler greyish-white on the belly and undertail-coverts.
The underwing-coverts and axillaries are black as in
the male.
Juvenile:
Considerably duller, juveniles are more of a buff hue
overall. In immature male, the red-brown coloration
appears first rather patchily with red-brown inner wing-coverts
and mantle feathering. The feet and tarsi are dull red.
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