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Below, lower breast, abdomen and flanks white ; anterior flanks, 

 thigh-coverts and vent white with black bars and mottlings : under 

 tail-coverts deep blue-green with black edges, 



A very bright-coloured male from Moupin has the feathers of the 

 throat, chin, foreneck, and upper breast with white centres, con- 

 spicuous on the throat and foreneck, but concealed on the 

 upper breast. One or two other specimens have these same white 

 centres, but in a much smaller degree, and in none are they visible 

 unless the feathers are lifted so as to expose their basal portions. 



Colour of soft parts. — " Iris clear yellow " (Pere David.) Orbital 

 skin blue, varying in brightness and depth of colour according to 

 season ; bill yellowish horny, darker at base and round nostrils; 

 legs and feet plumbeous or bhiish horny, toes and claws darker. 

 Iris bright straw-j^ellow. 



Measurements. — " Total length about 60 inches ; wing 8*2 ; tail 30; 

 tarsus o-l." (Ogilvie-Grant.) 



The series in the British Museum have wings running from 8-1" 

 to 0-2" (205 to 233 mm.); tails from 34" to 45" (803 to 1,143 mm.); 

 bill at front about 1-05" (20 mm.); tarsus from 3" (7C-2 mm.) to 

 3-4" (86-3 mm.) ; spur a mere knob, never as much as half an inch 

 (13 mm.) ; the crest is generally about 2" (50-8 mm.), and in 

 the longest only measures 2*4" (61 mm.). 



Ad/alt Female. — Forehead and feathers over the eye rufous, more 

 or less tipped black ; feathers of crown and nape and sides of neck 

 barred black and rufous-buft' with a sheen, strongest on the hind 

 neck, of steel-blue ; whole upper plumage barred buff and dark- 

 brown, the buff bars to the feathers of the mantle more rufous, with 

 the edges mottled with black and buff, the black mottling extend- 

 ing to the lower bars on the rump, lower back and upper tail- 

 coverts ; primaries and outer secondaries brownish black, barred 

 M'ith rufous buff; inner secondaries like the wing-coverts. 



Chin and throat albescent and generally immaculate or nearl}- so, 

 sides of throat, neck and breast chestnut-buff paling to creamy-buft' 

 on the flanks, narrowly edged \\'itli black and with broad semi- 

 concealed bars of black ; centre of breast and abdomen paler creamy, 

 unmarked ; under tail-coverts barred dull rufous-buff and black. 



Colours of soft parts. — " Iris yellow " (Wingate.) 



Orbital skin dull blue; bill yellowisli or greenish horny, darker 

 at Itase and on culmen ; legs plumbeous horny ; iris yellow or 

 brownish yellow. 



Meimiremeats.--'Wu-ig 7-2" to 8" (183 to 203 mm."); tail 

 12-2" to 14-5" (309 to 373 mm.); bill at front about 1" (25-4 

 mm.); tarsus 2-6" to 2-9" {ijiy to 73-6 mm.) 



YouTKf Male in first plumage resemliles the female, but acquires, 

 apparent]}- at its first moult, a black and white barred throat and 

 neck and a nnich moz-e boldlv marked breast and flanks; the 



