Juveniles occasionally have pale crowns.
Tawny-collared Nightjar formerly was considered conspecific with Yucatan Nightjar (Antrostomus badius), which has more extensive white in the tail corners and a paler crown and scapulars.
Naked head multicolored: orange yellow overall with broad bluish purple band at base of bill, pale blue crown, and blood red nape band.
This is a beautiful quail-dove when seen well, being dark gray above with a conspicuous blue and purple iridescence, becoming paler below, with a bright white forehead and paler gray crown; seen briefly, however, the overall impression is simply of a mid-sized, largely dark pigeon.
Upperparts pale slate-gray, crown dusky.
M. c. cyanochlamys, described by Richard Sharpe in 1881, is found on mainland Australia; in general, birds are smaller and paler than those of Tasmania, with Queensland male birds bearing a pale silvery blue crown, ear tufts and mantle.
The female is an undistinguished grey-brown above with a reddish tint to the crown, and paler underneath with dark brown wings and pale buff wing patch.
Males are pale faced with black crown and hindneck, a white hip patch, gray barred flanks, blue bill, and pink legs.
The film is barely watchable tosh, but it will boost Wasikowska's profile no end – it might also launch a new contender for the Robert Pattinson sulky-heart-throb crown, the pale and interesting Henry Hopper.
