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specimen, metallic white spots at the tips. Tail mottled Hack, 

 rufous and white on the basal half, then rich chestnut rufous and 

 finally a terminal white band. 



Lesser and median wing coverts bronze-green shot with copper ; 

 greater coverts and inner secondaries deep metallic blue-green ; 

 primaries and outer secondaries velvety blue-black. 



Below from chin to under-tail coverts deep velvety black. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — "Iris dark brown ; bill dirty white ; legs 

 pale greenish ; bare orbital space, blue ". (F. M. Bailey.) 



" Bill yellowish -hoiny; forehead, lores and sides of the head bright 

 blue, nearly naked ; legs and feet yellowish-brown." (Ogilvie- 

 Grant.) 



" There is a large bare space all round the eye, which in the fresh 

 bird, is bright blue, dotted with tiny tufts of black hair like feathers ; 

 the irides are brown ; the legs and feet brown or yellowish-brown ; 

 the bill yellowish-horny." (Jerdon, vide Hume.) 



Measurements. — "Total length 26"; wing 11'8; tail 8" 2; tarsus 

 3-1". (Ogilvie-Grant). 



"Weight, 61 lbs." (F. M. Bailey). The weight of a fine cock 

 weighed by Mr. J. Needham and myself in Sadiya was just over 

 6|- lbs. Three males in the British Museum collection measure as 

 follows: — ^wing 292 mm. (a poor specimen in heavy moult) to 325 mm; 

 tail (of two) 194 and 206 mm.; tarsus 78 to 82 mm. The longest of 

 the thick curly feathers of the crest if pulled out straight measure 

 an inch or over. Bill at front about 50* 4mm., and from gape 

 about 55 '8 mm. The short blunt spur measures from 12 to 

 18 mm. 



Adult Female. — ^Upper part of head and whole neck rich vandyke- 

 brown with a buif v-shaped mark on each feather ; lores mottled 

 white, fulvous and brown, the first colour predominating ; sides of 

 the head like the crown but paler ; back, scapulars with some of the 

 wing coverts next them, and innermost secondaries rich chocolate- 

 brown with bufi central streaks widening into ill-defined rufescent- 

 bulf bars on each feather ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts 

 pale earthy white, more rufous near the back, more white on the 

 longest tail coverts, irregularly barred with narrow wavy lines of 

 brown ; on the longest tail feathers the bars are bolder and almost 

 black ; tail black broadly tipped with white and with six or seven 

 narrow bars of white ; central tail feathers also mottled with rufous 

 in the terminal half and all with a more or less mottled edge of bufi 

 and brown. Primaries umber-brown, outer secondaries the same but 

 A^ith the outer webs mottled on the margins like the tail ; remainder 

 of visible wing black with numerous bars of rich chestnut rufous and 

 very fine buff shaft streaks. 



Below, chin and throat white ; remainder of lower plumage dull 

 brown densely covered with tiny wavy bars of dull ochre. 



