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large dusky centers, which are completely edged and sometimes barred 

 and mottled with pale bufif, the dark areas with a greenish gloss terminally, 

 dull fuscous basally ; upper tail coverts like the rump but with some pale 

 tawny-russet edgings ; the dusky median parts with their pale edges com- 

 pletely hidden by the elongated tips of the feathers; in birds with more 

 colchicus than torqitatus blood the whole lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts have the glaucous-green and gray replaced by Hay's russet 

 to Kaiser brown, and the green of the back more brownish and darker; 

 tail feathers olive-buff to dark olive-buff crossed by many blackish bars 

 (the longest central pair of rectrices with 20-25 such bars), the bars 

 narrower than the paler interspaces ; the lateral edges of the rectrices, 

 except the terminal third or so, brownish vinaceous, the dark bars becom- 

 ing sorghum brow^n to vinaceous-brown, the edges of the vanes much 

 frayed (in birds with more colchicus than torquatus blood the rectrices 

 are tawny-olive instead of olive-buff, and the lateral parts Verona brown 

 to Front's brown) ; breast dark coppery hazel, the feathers broadly glossed 

 terminally wath magenta purple with narrow W-shaped black tips the 

 broadest part of the W being the median portion along the shaft, the 

 black with a bluish gloss (in birds with more colchicus blood these dark 

 terminal edges are better developed and sometimes produce a scalloped 

 pattern) ; sides and flanks light, bright buff-yellow, the feathers with 

 large wedge-shaped terminal shaft spots of shining blue-black, narrowly 

 edged with zinc orange in some specimens ; center of upper abdomen 

 black, each feather broadly tipped and less broadly edged with shining 

 dark green or blue-green ; lateral to this are a number of feathers like 

 those of the breast but more squarely truncate and with large wedge- 

 shaped terminal spots like the laterally adjacent feathers of the sides and 

 flanks (in birds with more colchicus blood the feathers of the sides and 

 flanks are bright orange-tawny instead of buff-yellow) ; rest of abdomen 

 and thighs dull Front's brown to mummy brown with a slight mixture 

 of paler buffy brown feathers ; under tail coverts hazel to russet with con- 

 cealed dusky mummy-brown basal-median areas ; the more lateral and 

 anterior of these feathers with a slight amount of pinkish-purplish sheen ; 

 undersurface of tail feathers very dark clove brown, the paler interspaces 

 between the dark bars much suffused and mottled with dusky ; under 

 wing coverts white to pale buffy white, the axillars with dusky brownish 

 bars ; bare skin of sides of head bright red ; iris hazel ; bill pale greenish 

 yellow ; tarsi and toes brownish gray. 



Adult female. — Feathers of center of forehead and crown fuscous-black, 

 edged with ochraceous-tawny to hazel, those of the hindcrown and occiput 

 similar but banded and edged with buffy and only sparingly tinged with 

 hazel; lores and anterior part of superciliaries (from anterior end of eye 

 to the nape), nape, and sides of neck light vinaceous- fawn to pale grayish 

 vinaceous, each feather narrowly tipped with blackish ; the feathers pale 



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