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the back ; upper tail-coverts blue-black with a slight greenish gloss ; 

 wing-coverts and quills black, externally glossed "with steel-green, 

 shaded with purplish ; the primaries light brown on the inner webs, 

 blackish at the ends ; tail-feathers black, externally steel-green ; 

 head strongly crested, black with a purple gloss, as also the hind 

 neck, sides of face, ear-covcrts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and 

 fore neck ; chest and under surface of body clear rose-colour, brighter 

 on the abdomen ; sides of body also rose-colour, the lower flanks 

 and thighs purj^lish black ; under tail-coverts black with a steel- 

 green gloss ; under wing-coverts black, edged with white, the 

 axillarics externally rosy white ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner web. Total length 8 inches, culmen O'S, wing 5'], tail 

 2*5, tarsus 1*25. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the colours not so 

 bright and the crest much shorter. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 

 0'85, wing 4-85, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-15. 



Young. Different from the adults. General colour above pale earthy 

 brown, the scapulars like the back ; lower back and rump slightly 

 paler brown ; upper tail-coverts like the back, with darker brown 

 centres ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts dark brown, edged with whity brown, whiter on the inner 

 greater coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark 

 brown, friuged with whity brown, the inner secondaries edged with 

 white like the adjoining greater coverts ; tail-feathers light brown, 

 edged with whity brown ; crown of head like the back, only a trifle 

 darker ; lores whitish as well as the eyelid ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts brown ; checks, chin, and upper throat white ; lower throat 

 white, with dark brown central streaks ; sides of neck ashy brown ; 

 fore neck, chest, and remainder of under surface of body light ashy 

 brown, washed with creamy buff on the chest ; abdomen rather 

 whiter; lower flanks slightly mottled with dark brown centres; 

 thighs ochreous brown ; imder tail-coverts light brown with whitish 

 edges ; under wing-coverts and asillaries ashy with whitish edges • 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill above brownish ; 

 gape and base of upper mandible yellowish ; tip of lower mandible 

 dusky; legs and feet fleshy; iris brown" (TF. V. Legge). Total 

 length S"5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 5-05, tail 2-65, tarsus 1-2. 



The description of the young bird is taken from a male procured 

 at Burgasskeuy in Turkey, on the 14th of September by jVIr. Eobson, 

 The birds arrive in India in this brown plumage, and moult in 

 October into their first full plumage. This is heralded first of all 

 by a darkening of the under tail-coverts, which become black with 

 broad whitish edges ; a faint rosy tinge pervades the brown of the 

 under surface ; an occasional black feather shows itself on the throat, 

 and the quills are shed. The young males appear to gain the adult 

 plumage at the first moult, but the females apparently take a much 

 longer time, and are probably several years before they put on a 

 full rosy plumage like the male. The winter plumage of the young 

 seems to be like that of the adult, the rosy portions of the plumage 



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