A dark spot is present on the pectoral fin, with a similar dark to dusky spot present on the upper margin of the operculum.
Young birds are duller, with light streaks and dusky scaling on throat and breast.
In general, the birds have a dusky pale- streaked with darker brown plumage with and pale eyebrows.
The undertail coverts are buff, and there is usually dusky barring on the dull white underside, especially on the flanks.
The sides have a faint silvery hue with dusky specks, and the belly is white.
The most serious clashes recently between the authorities and public people have been owing to the presence at meetings and in the streets of ominous dusky figures in garish regimentals.
Thorax dark brown, with the markings dusky grey-brown; these vary in intensity but are usually more or less indefinite.
On the head and tip of the femur it becomes duller, and in the final stages of its reduction it is represented only by a dusky clouding.