| 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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