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males have a distensible sac on either side of the neck, the feathers sur- 

 rounding which are largely white broadly tipped with dark sepia; the 

 sacs deep yellow, carunculated, iris Vandyke brown ; orbital skin dull 

 yellow, supraorbital "comb" deep orange-yellow; bill blackish, feet light 

 brownish gray ; claws blackish brown. '^^ 



Adult female. — Very different from the male: Forehead and crown 

 fuscous-black tipped and basally banded with tawny to amber brown, the 

 brown color more noticeable than the black, occiput and nape similar 

 but with the brown tips paler and lighter— pale tawny-olive and with the 

 black areas reduced to narrow bands, each feather having three brown 

 bands, giving somewhat the appearance of dusky vermiculations on the 

 pale brown ground ; interscapulars and upper back barred black and cin- 

 namon, each feather with four cinnamon bands (including the terminal 

 one) ; the feathers of the lower back with the bands reduced in number 

 and restricted to the terminal third or less, only two black bands and 

 these doubly concave distally and the terminal area much washed with 

 grayish, especially posteriorly (in the feathers of the posterior part of 

 the lower back these gray areas are almost pure gray with a fine sub- 

 terminal wavy black line) ; lesser and median upper wing coverts cin- 

 namon to tawny mottled and subbasally broadly marked with black, and 

 with the tips of the shafts white broadening into whitish wedges, which 

 spread laterally to form in some cases a narrow terminal band on either 

 side; greater upper coverts clove brown narrowly edged and distally 

 mottled with cinnamon; remiges (except inner secondaries) clove brown 

 tipped with pale tawny, the outer webs of the primaries mottled with pale 

 cinnamon ; the inner secondaries tipped with white, this area proximally 

 narrowly edged with black, the rest of the feathers black both broadly 

 and narrowly crossed by tawny areas, upper tail coverts like the lower 

 back ; median rectrices cinnamon to tawny crossed by brnad blackish 

 blotches and by irregular fine black lines, the tips grayer, banded irregu- 

 larly with fine black lines ; the rest of the rectrices deep clove brown to 

 fuscous tipped with dusky neutral gray, this area on the pair next to the 

 brown median rectrices breaking up proximally into a series of irregular 

 flecks which become brownish basally ; tail slightly rounded as in the 

 male ; lores white flecked with blackish ; feathers of malar area, cheeks, 

 auriculars, and gular area white basally, tawny to amber brown distally, 

 edged and tipped with black; chin lightly washed with tawny and the 

 feathers edged with black ; upper throat white, each feather with a V- 

 shaped terminal blackish band, these edgings becoming broader postero- 

 latcrally, where the white centers tend to disappear ; breast and upper 

 abdomen clove brown to fuscous, banded with pale cinnamon, tipped with 

 grayish pale cinnamon, and with the white shafts enlarging terminally to 



" Colors of soft parts from manuscript note by Allan Brooks. 



