Cormobates placens

Male nominate race has dark brown crown with illdefined pale buff steaks; hindneck to rump and tertials dull brownish- olive, uppertail- coverts as mantle or greyer; upperwing darker than mantle, with rufous- buff bar across remiges, and with secondaries and inner primaries broadly tipped pale brown; tail olive to grey with blackish subterminal spot, outer feathers dark olive to brownish- black with broad pale grey or buff tips; throat whitish, merging into buffy grey on upper breast, more ochraceous on belly, flanks dark brownish- grey with buff streaking, lower abdomen spotted buff, undertailcoverts barred dark brown to black; iris blood- red to red- brown; bill black to greyish- black, basal half of lower mandible whitish; legs greyish- yellow to olive. Female differs from  male in having conspicuous rusty- orange cheek patch, throat light buffy grey, lower abdomen with larger, black- bordered ochraceous- buff steaks. Immature resembles adult; young female differs from adult female to having abdomen heavily mottled with ochraceous buff and black. Racers differ mainly in plumage; steini is similar to nominate, but more dark greyish- olive above; inexpectata resembles previous, but forehead streaks more  sharply defined, rump and uppertail- covers pure grey, tail grayer, underparts paler; meridionalis is browner  above than last, more strongly ochraceous on belly.