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with red on the upper part, and on the orbital skin and cheeks ; on 

 the bottom and also half-way up the sides there is a pale blue edging, 

 blue ^•eining•s running in from the edge towards the centre. 



The colouration of lappets and horns probably differs very greatly 

 individually, two cock birds which I kept alive lor some time 

 in a large aviar}^ were quite unlike one another, although brothers. 

 One had the lappet when fully extended orange almost throughout, 

 whereas the other bird had it a pale lemon-yellow with a very broad 

 edging of blue. 



" Irides deep brown; orbital skin orange; horns azure ; 

 lappets brimstone, tinged with blue ; legs and feet light brown, 

 tinged pink " (Damant). 



Measurements. — Wing, 260 to 265 mm.; tail, 180 to 220 mm.; 

 tarsus, 82 to 94 mm. ; bill about 16 mm. The horns in the 

 breeding season measure a full inch or 26 mm. , arid the lappet 

 nearly 3 inches or 75 mm. long, hj about 36 mm. broad. 



Hume gives the total length as 21-0 to 23-0 inches ; bill from 

 gape, 1-3 to 1-4. 



Adult Female. — Whole upper plumage black and rufous, the 

 black being in broad bold bars and patches, the rufous in narrow 

 bars and minute stippling; in addition nearljr all the feathers have 

 a Y-shaped or crescentic central mark of biiff, a few feathers having 

 two such marks and others longitudinal marks of the same colour. 

 The tail is lighter in general effect, and has the black replaced to a 

 great extent by rich rufous ; chin and throat white with brown 

 spots, the former almost immaculate ; whole lower surface and 

 flanks mottled and stippled with very dark brown, dull rufous and 

 greyish white, the latter colour forming distinct spots on many of 

 the feathers ; the centre of the abdomen and vent are more gre3ash 

 and uniform in colour, the under tail -coverts rather more richly 

 and deeply coloured. 



Colours of soft parts. — Irides pale bluish brown to daik brown ; 

 the former colour being almost certainly a sign of immaturity ; bill 

 dark horny, commissure, gape and base of lower mandible paler ; 

 legs dull fleshy horny, claws darker and browner. 



Measurements. — Wing, 230 to 245 mm.; tail, 155 to 180 mm. ; 

 tarsus, about 70 mm. (68 to 73 mm.); bill front about 14-15 mm. 



Yo^tng male.— Ijike the female, changing in the spring to a 

 plumage half-way between that of the adult male and female. 



A fine young male which I had in my aviaries in North Cachar 

 moulted in April-May into the plumage described below. 



Forehead to nape deep glossy black ; lores covered with feathers, 

 white near the eye, black, edged with reddish next the forehead ; 

 a broad supercilium from above the eye red ; nape and hind-neck 

 vermiculated brown and black ; a broad band from behind the eye 

 and below the supercilium black; ear-coverts dark br( wn with a 



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