Crossword-Solution: PILEUM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Their plumage was a rich chocolate, suffused over neck, breast, and back with intense crimson, while the pileum was quite black.

The tail markings, the distinct yellow on the under tail coverts, the sharply marked pileum, are all examples of ruptive coloration.

The adult [Female] besides differing, as does the [Male], in heavier stripes below etc., has the whole pileum, occiput, upper neck, and sides of neck heavily streaked black and olive-green, and the throat and chest dull gray with whitish streaks.

Description.—_Adult male in summer_: Upperparts, throat and breast slate-color deepening to slaty-black on pileum, the bluish tinge lacking on wings and tail; below, abruptly white from the breast, the flanks ashy slate; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers entirely, and the third pair principally white; bill flesh-color, usually tipped with black.

Description.—_Adults_: General color drab (grayish brown to dark hair-brown), darker on pileum and auriculars, lighter on throat, shading thru upper tail-coverts to black; tail brownish black; wings fuscous, the coverts and exposed webs of tertials edged with lighter grayish brown; underparts below breast cinnamon-buff; axillars and lining of wings light buff or cream-buff.