. Birds. Birds. CATREUS. 83 Coloration. Male. Crown and crest brown, each feather edged and tipped paler; sides o£ head, where feathered, iacludiug the. Fig. 15.—Head of C. walUahi, J, ^. ear-coverts, brown, slightly more rufous; neck all round, except behind, chin, and throat sullied white; back of neck and upper back black, the feathers barred and tipped with white; wing- coverts pale-shafted and barred buffy white and black, the colours broken up and mottled on the greater coverts and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull rufous, each feather with a subterminal black ban
. Birds. Birds. CATREUS. 83 Coloration. Male. Crown and crest brown, each feather edged and tipped paler; sides o£ head, where feathered, iacludiug the. Fig. 15.—Head of C. walUahi, J, ^. ear-coverts, brown, slightly more rufous; neck all round, except behind, chin, and throat sullied white; back of neck and upper back black, the feathers barred and tipped with white; wing- coverts pale-shafted and barred buffy white and black, the colours broken up and mottled on the greater coverts and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull rufous, each feather with a subterminal black band, glossed with green ; quills dark brown, irregularly edged and speckled with buff ; tail-feathers with alter- nating subequal broad cross-bars of white or buffi and black mottled with grey, and replaced in parts by chestnut on the inner webs of the outer fearlieis, generally a narrow detached black stripe in front of each black bar, the white or buff bars often speckled with black; breast and flanks buff or buffy white, the feathers barred with black; middle of abdomen blackish, lower abdomen grey tinged with rufous on lower flanks and under tail-coverts,* Female. Feathers of crown and crest dark brown, with buff edges ; supercilia and sides of head brown, with broader whitish edges to the feathers ; chin and throat white ; neck all round and upper breast black, with broad whitish edges; feathers of the upper tack barred black and chestnut, with whitish shaft-stripes and tips; wing-coverts mixed black and buff, whit(?-shafted, and with whitish edges; scapulars and greater coverts with whitish ends ; quills black, barred with buff on the outer webs and with rufous on the inner ; lower back and rump greyish brown, mixed with black and buff; tail brown, mottled and blotched with black, and with rather narrow, irregular, more or less black-edged whitish cross-bars ; lower breast rufous, the feathers pale-edged ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts isabelline, tnor& or less with
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