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Below black, glossed with deep blue, but with the brownish bases 

 of the feathers showing through. Wings like the back, but the 

 scapulars with a broad subtei*minal band of black followed by a 

 narrow line of pure white ; lesser and median coverts with similar 

 markings, but much less pronounced. 



Colours of the Soft Farts. — Iris red, brown, red-brown or hazel ; 

 bill pale greenish horny ; facial skin bright scarlet-red ; legs and 

 feet rich deep scarlet or crimson-red, toes and spurs dark horny- 

 brown, the latter tipped paler, and sometimes wholly of a pale 

 horny white colour. 



" Iris burnt sienna, light red to vermilion • bill pepper- 

 " brown ; legs vermilion ". (E.G.Herbert). 



Measurements. — Wing, 230 to 256 mm., average eight birds, 

 250 mm. ; tail, 345 to 386 mm.; tarsus about 100 mm. ; crest 70 

 to 90 mm. ; bill from gape about 32 mm. and from front to tip 

 about the same. 



Adult Female. — Crown, nape and sides of the head a dingy pale 

 earth-brown, shading into pale rufous, white on chin, throat and 

 fore neck ; back and sides of neck, back and scapulars chestnut red, 

 with faint dusky margins to each feather, and a certain amount of 

 black stippling in tiny irregular bars. Lower back, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts vermiculated or mottled with pale rufous buff and 

 black ; the bars broader and better-defined on the hack than 

 elsewhere. Tail, two central pairs of feathers, the same wdth 

 broad bars of black, boldly mottled with buff on their terminal 

 halves, outer feathers a rich chestnut red. 



Below chestnut, the breast and fore neck like the mantle ; the 

 lower breast, abdomen and flanks with bold edgings of white to 

 each feather ; centre of the abdomen dull brown and white ; under 

 tail-coverts unmarked chestnut, the bases mottled with brown. 



Visible portions of the wing like the tail, but with the buff bars 

 and mottlings even more boldly defined ; primaries a lighter brown 

 with narrow mottled bars of pale buff. 



Colmirs of Soft Parts. — Iris red or brown ; bare skin of face dull 

 scarlet brick-colour, pale dull scarlet or dull scarlet ; bill horny 

 brown, tip and gouys paler ; legs and feet a very rich deep red, 

 scarlet red or crimson red ; soles paler and claws pale horny or 

 horny-white. 



" Iris raw umber, burnt sienna, Venetian red or Naples yello\\- ; 

 " bill above black, the lower mandible yellowish horny ; some- 

 " times the upper mandible is more brown than black ; feet and 

 " legs vermilion, but paler and duller than in the male." 



(E. G. Herbert.) 



Measurements. — Wing, 220 to 238 mm. average of eight birds 



228 mm. ; tail 220 to 260 mm. ; tarsus 75 to 85 mm. crest very 



short and of ordinary feathers, not distinguishable from the rest 



