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less pure and more grey, and the black proportionately less in 

 extent until the spots on the posterior flanks and abdomen become 

 large gray blotches with black at the bases only. The under tail- 

 coverts are crimson with white ocelli surrounded by brown with 

 black terminal fringes. 



Lower back, scapulars rump and shorter tail-coverts olive-brown 

 with white, black-edged ocelli and black and rufous buff vermicu- 

 lations ; longer tail-coverts amber-brown with sub-terminal broad 

 black edges. The scapulars are profusely marked with crimson 

 and occasional similar marks appear on the back and outer edge of 

 rump and upper tail-coverts. 



Shoulder of wing crimson ; coverts like the scapulars, the greater 

 coverts showing broad bases of mottled buff and black. Inner 

 secondaries like the greater coverts, but with no crimson ; outer 

 secondaries and primaries deep brown, with numerous broken 

 mottlings of buff. Bastard wing chestnut, mottled at the tip on 

 inner webs with dark-brown. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — Bill, brownish black, black at the base ; 

 irides, brown, or hazel-brown ; legs, diill fleshy, deepening in colour 

 and suflTused with crimson during the breeding season ; claws, pale 

 horny-brown ; spur, pale grey-brown, almost white at the tip. 

 Horns, dull Prussian blue, becoming much brighter during the 

 breeding season ; lappet, Prussian blue, the same colour as the 

 whole of the gular and orbital region, but when extended the 

 edges show a bright sage-green, with four, rarely five, triangular 

 patches of brilliant deep scarlet. 



Measurements. — Length, 671-722 mm. (Beebe). Wings, 245 

 to 285 mm. Average of 30 birds, 268- 5 mm. The bastard wing 

 measu.res up to 137 mm. Tail, 232 to 300 mm., average, 269-5 

 mm. Bills from front to tip in a straight line, 14-16 mm. ; tarsus, 

 85 to 90 mm., with the short spur measuring from 10 to 15 mm. 



Weight, 3 lbs. 8 ozs. to 4-lbs. 10 ozs. (Hume ). 



Two fine males shot by my collectors during the breeding season 

 were said to weigh a little under 2^ seers=5 lbs. Both these 

 birds were said to be very fat. 



Adult Female. — Whole plumage above rufous-buff or rufous- 

 ochre, vermiculated, barred and blotched with black and with 

 narrow pale ochre central streaks ; tail, rich rufous-brown with 

 broken bufi" and black bars, the black grading into the general 

 rufous-brown ; the black on the inner webs of the outer tail feathers 

 developing into broad well-defined bars. 



Below, the chin and throat is generally pale, sometimes almost 

 albescent, — the breast is like the back, but paler and less richly 

 colovired ; on the abdomen and vent the general tint becomes still 

 paler, and the central streaks develop into large white spots. 



