386 PnASIANTD.E. 



oblique lines of white on the outer web ; primaries blackish brown, 

 spotted with white towards the tip and the inner ones mottled with 

 the same colour along the margin of the outer web ; inner second- 

 aries brownish black, outer black, all more or less spotted with 

 white at the extremity, and, except the first two, with oblique white 

 bars on the outer web and oblique rows of white spots on the inner, 

 the first four are also margined with reddish brown, and the third 

 and fourth have a submarginal band of purplish blue, while the 

 fifth is narrowly margined with the same colour. Ereast and belly 

 cobalt-blue, black down the middle. Long pointed middle pair of 

 tail-feathers black, minutely dotted all over and spotted with white 

 towards the base ; outer ones black, largely spotted all over with 

 white. Naked parts of the head and neck cobalt-blue. Total 

 length 30 inches, wing 12'2, tail 11"3, tarsus 4-1, middle toe (with 

 claw) 3. 



Adult female. Differs from the male only in having no spurs on 

 the tarsi and being a little smaller. Total length 27 inches, 

 wing 12, tail TO, tarsus 3-8, middle toe and claw 2-9. 



In immature specimens the hackles on the neck and chest are 

 interspersed with short feathers transversely barred with black and 

 white, some of the wing-coverts are also barred with white, and the 

 back of the neck is thinly covered with feathers. 



A very young female has the head still covered with rufous down, 

 longitudinally barred with black ; the plumage of the upper parts 

 alternately barred with black, buff, and rufous, and tipped with 

 buff; the chin and throat white, and the undeq^arts black, barred 

 and fringed with pale buff. 



Hah. Same as that of the genus. 



a,h. c? 5 ad. sk. Useri River, Kilimanjaro, H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 

 July. [P.]. 



c. Ad. St. Zanzibar Coast. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. West Africa {Gqjt. Pi-obyn). Hardwicke Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



e. $ pull. sk. Bred in confinement. P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



48. MELEAGRIS. 



Type. 



Meleagris, Linn. S. N. i. p. 208 (1766) M. gallopavo. 



Orallopavo, Briinnich, Zml. Fundamenta, p. 86 (1772). M. gallopavo. 



Cenchramus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 78 (1841) M. gallopavo. 



Gallopavus, Des Murs (1854),_^c?e Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 262 (1870) M. gallopavo. 



Skin of the head and neck naked and carunculated, with only a 

 few hair-like feathers ; an erectile process situated on the fore- 

 head. 



Tail composed of 1 8 feathers, broad, rounded, the outer feathers 

 not much shorter than the middle ones. Upper tail-coverts are 

 two-thirds of the length of the middle pair of tail-feathers. 



1st primary about equal to the 10th, 5th slightly the longest. 



