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nimp, and upper tail-coverts rufous buff, mottled ■with black and 

 widely tipped -with red, glossed with purplish lake ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts reddish sandy brown, the inner ones edged 

 with red. Quills, greater coverts, and bastard-wing light brown, 

 barred and mottled with whitish buff, the outer webs of the 

 secondaries shading into buff towards their margins ; chest, breast, 

 and flanks tiery orange-red, each feather with a rich purple margin ; 

 middle of breast and sides of belly glossed with dark purplish green ; 

 rest of underparts dark brown mixed with rufous, especially on the 

 under tail-coverts. Centre pair of tail-feathers light olive-brown in 

 the middle and widely edged on each side with rufous glossed 

 with purplish lake ; a series of wide-set black bars across the 

 olive-brown central band, narrow on the basal part and in- 

 creasing in width towards the extremity ; outer pairs similar, 

 but shading into blackish brown towards the margins of the 

 inner web. Bill whitish horn ; legs and feet brownish horn-colour ; 

 naked skin on the sides of the face and wattles, when present, 

 scarlet-vermilion. Total length 37"5 inches, wing lO'l, tail 21-2, 

 tarsus 2'8. 



Immaho-e males resemble the adult, but the plumage is less pure 

 and bright and the tail is shorter. 



Adult female. Top of the head black, each feather edged with 

 sandy brown and tipped with black ; back and sides of the neck 

 the same, but the feathers have a slight pinkish tinge and a 

 glossy crimson and purple line across the tip ; mantle and sides 

 of the breast chestnut, with black centres and pale pinkish-white 

 margins mottled with black ; rest of the upper parts black, orange- 

 brown towards the tips and margined with sandy brown mixed 

 with buff. Quills as in the male, hut the barring and mottling, 

 especially on the outer webs of the secondaries, is much coarser ; 

 an elongate patch of white black- tipped feathers below the eye ; 

 chin and throat pale n;fous buff'; chest and upper breast much the 

 same as the mantle, but the basal parts are almost entirely hidden 

 by the sandy-pink tips ; flanks barred with black and buff in the 

 middle and edged with pale buff; rest of underparts pale buff, finely 

 vermiculated with dusky brown. Middle pair of tail-feathers 

 reddish brown down the middle, shading into sandy olive on the 

 sides and with wide irregular bars of black, buff, and black ; outer 

 pair very similar. Total length 24-5 inches, wing 8-6, tail 11"5, 

 tarsus 2"4. 



Hub. Southern Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor to Transcaucasia, 

 extending northwards to the Volga. 



a. (S ad. sk. Erzeroom, Turkey. Gould Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. R. Rion, Mingrelia, Hon. W. Rothschild 



Transcaucasia. [P.]. 



c. d. c? 2 ad. sk. Caucasus. Purchased. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Terski, Ciscaucasia, St. Petersburg Mu- 



Feb. seum [E.]. 



/. 5 ad. sk. Astrakhan, .June. St. Petersburg Mu- 



seum [E.]. 



