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band ; lower breast and belly white ; flanks grey, minutely vermicn- 

 latod with blacik ; under tail coverts black, but marked with bay on the 

 sidos, the longer ones whitish-buff at the tips, with slight vermiculations 

 on the lower flanks, just at the base of the tail a band of silky white, 

 formed b/ the tip of the feathers ; wings pale greyish-brown ; the last 

 row of the upper wing coverts tipped with cinnamon, forming a band 

 which borders anteriorly the wing speculum ; the latter is glossy green 

 anteriorly with a sub-apical velvety black band, and bordered by a 

 white band at the tip of the secondaries ; the longer tertiaries marked 

 with velvety black on the outer webs ; quills pale brown ;, under wing 

 coverts brown -grey ; the greater ones pale grey, the centre ones and 

 axilluries whitish, minutely spotted with brown-grey; bill dark bluish- 

 brown ; feet light greyish-blue, darker on the web ; irides chestnut 

 brown. Total length 18 inches, wing 8*5", tail 4'2", cuhnen 1"5", 

 tarsus 1" " (Salva<lori). 



''Length 15 -8"; wing 8-15"; tail 3-9"; tarsus I'S"; bill at front I'S"; 

 from gape, 1-92"" (Hume). 



" The tareus . , . in a fine male from China is 1'4:" " 

 (Hume). 



Agam Temmonck and Bchlegel give the dimensions of the tarsus as 

 1-28". 



Of the four specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, the measure- 

 ments of the tarsus of the males are 1*2" to 1'3" ; the moasuromonts 

 viere kindly supplied to me by Mr, F. Finn. 



Female, — " Qpper parts, wings and tail brown, with paler edges to the 

 feathers ; crown darkest ; speculum as in the male, but the rufous and 

 bronze-green bands duller ; a bulf spot on each side of the head in front 

 of the lores ; another under each eye ; sidos of the head and neck buff 

 or pale rufous, speckled with brown ; lower parts white, except lower 

 fore neck and upper breast, which are light rufous-brown with dark spots." 



" Length 15-0" ; culmen 1-45" ; wing 7-8" ; tail 3-5" ; tarsus O'O"" 

 (Dresser). 



" The only female in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a tarsus 

 measuring 1*3"" (Hume). 



'' The male assumes, after breeding, a plumage very similar to that 

 of the female, from which he is only to be distinguished by the darker 

 brownish-red tint of the upper breast, and the comparatively uniform 



