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Medium small. Chunky with longish, fine, black bill. Sexes alike. Adults: Breeding: Forehead, white. Eyestripe, from lores to ear, dark brown. Forecrown, black. Eyebrow, short, white, behind eye only. Eye, dark brown. Eyering, pale-yellow and narrow. Crown, hind neck, back, rump, uppertail coverts, wing coverts, greyish-brown, greater coverts tipped white forming a conspicuous wing bar. A narrow collar, white, and bordered behind by black, which continues forming a narrow black breast band, with streaked dark brown bend of wing. Tail, brown, with a white tip and black subterminal band. Throat, breast, belly, undertail coverts, underwing, white. Bill, black. Legs, dull ochre to yellow. Non-breeding: Black of head replaced with dark brown. Eyebrow, buff. Forehead, buff. Breastband narrower and browner or mixed black and brown. Bill, black. Legs, dull ochre to yellow. Immatures: Similar to non-breeding adult, but paler.

Vagrant to Bangladesh (NB), Bhutan (NB), Brunei Darussalam (NB), Hong Kong (China) (NB), Indonesia (NB), Sri Lanka (NB).

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