886 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATVRAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI. 



Description — Adult Male. — Feathers of head, nape and parts 

 surrounding bare skin of face and throat, black, the longest crest 

 feathers tipped crimson ; neck all round below the black, deep 

 crimson-red ; feathers of fore-neck and upper breast, which are very- 

 stiff and bristl}^, a gorgeous orange flame colour. Remainder of 

 upper part and anterior sides of the neck and shoulders greyish 

 ochre, vermiculated with black in bars, and with white ocelli 

 surrounded with black. The inter-scapulars next the crimson 

 neck are often more or less strongly tinged with rufous, and 

 therefore appear darker and richer than elsewhere. The longest 

 upper tail-coverts with black tips and large white central patches 

 edo'ed with rufous. Tail mottled black and ochre, with broad 

 black terminal bars. , 



Shoulder of wing crimson-red ; wing-coverts like the back, biit 

 the ocelli larger, and the ochre mottling greater in extent ; prima- 

 ries and outer secondaries brown with broken ochre bars and 

 mottling ; innermost secondaries mottled ochre and black with 

 terminal heart-shaped white ocelli surrounded with olive-rufous and 

 black, and also with a few olive-rufous, almond-shaped marks 

 surrounded with black. Under wing- coverts mottled brown and 

 ochre and marked with crimson. Axillaries deep brown. 



Below the throat the under plumage is black, the feathers red at 

 the base, showing through in patches everywhere, and with bold 

 white ocelli. The flanks, vent and under tail-coverts are more or 

 less mottled with ochre and brown. 



Colours of Soft Parts — Irides, rich brown or hazel-brown ; 

 bill, black or blackish brown ; orbital skin, bright red ; horns, 

 bright pale Prussian blue, sometimes with a tinge of green (" light 

 blue " Blanf.) ; lappet, bright, fleshy pink, with a deep purple 

 line down the centre, and with triangular patches of pale blue with 

 the bases joining on the centre line. The edge of the lappet and 

 the top next the bare cheeks is also pale bright blue. On the 

 lowei' part of the cheeks there are greenish blue caruncles, which 

 show up well when the lappet is extended ; legs and feet fleshy 

 grey or fleshy red, with a tinge of purple, deeper and redder in 

 the breeding season than at other times, " pale flesh colour, 

 approaching to white " (Hume). 



Measurements. — "Length, 27 to 29; expanse, 37; wing, 11-25; 

 tail, 10-5 to 11-0; tarsus, 3; weight, 4-5-lbs." (Hume). 



The following comprises the measurements of 30 specimens in 

 the British Museum, Tring Museum, etc. Wing, 257 to 290 mm., 

 average, 274 mm.; tail, 221 to 247 mm., average, 237-5 mm. ; 

 tarsus, 78 to 97 mm. ; all but one under 85 mm., and averaging 

 about 81 mm, ; bill at front, 17 to 20 mm. 



The weights of freshly-killed wild birds seat to me from 

 Kashmir were given as 4, 4^ and 4| lbs. 



