Male
Dirty brown crown with black streaks
Black wings and upper back, orange-buff lower back
Whitish panel on upperwing in flight
Black breast and flanks
Lower breast and belly whitish or blackish
Orange-buff rump and undertail-coverts
Black bill and legs
Female
Dark brownish plumage
Whitish vent and undertail-coverts
Streakish underparts
Variations
vaurei has a pale greyish-buff crown and a small white panel in the open wing,
schalowi is slightly brown-tinged dorsally, has a more rufous-tinged rump and tail and always a white belly.