the head and of the crest ; lower part of the crest dark metallic 

 green ; chin and throat cinnamon ; sides of the neck with long 

 pointed feathers, of a chestnut colour, striped with whitish along 

 the middle ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts 

 hoary brown with a dull bronzj- gloss ; lower neck in front and on 

 the sides glossy chestnut, bounded on the sides with five cresccutic 

 bands, three black and two white; sides, breast, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts white ; sides and flanks pale brown, vermiculated with 

 black, the longer feathers with white and black crescentic bands 

 at the tip ; lower flanks tinged with glossy chestnut ; scapulars 

 bronzy greyish green, glossed with blue, the outer ones white, 

 broadly edged with velvety black on the outer web ; primaries grey 

 on the outer web, tipped with green on the inner web ; secondaries 

 glossy bluish green, tipped with a white band ; inner tertial with 

 the shaft much bent downward, giving to the outer web a falcate 

 form, the inner web excessively widened into a very broad chest- 

 nut fan, edged on the upper part with whitish and on the lower 

 with velvety steel-black, the outer web of the same feather 

 velvety steel-black ; under wing-coverts brown-grey ; tail brown 

 olive-grey: "iris dark brown, with a yellowish-white outer ring; 

 bill reddish brown, with the nail bluish flesh-colour ; tarsus aud 

 toes reddish yellow ; membranes blackish " (ScJirenck). Total length 

 about 17 inches, wing 9-4, tail 4"5, culmen 1"25, tarsus 1*35. 



Female. Head, neck, and crest grey ; a band at the base of the 

 bill, round the eyes, a band starting from the eyes towards the 

 nape, chin, throat, lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; lower fore neck, breast, sides, and flanks brownish grej', 

 each feather with a whitish oblong spot near the tip ; upper parts 

 and upper wing-coverts brown olive-grey ; primaries brown, with 

 the edge of the outer web grey ; secondaries brown-olive, with a 

 green lustre, broadly tipped with white ; one of the tertials has the 

 outer web partly black, glossed with bluish green ; tail brown olive- 

 grey. Size somewhat smaller than the male. 



Male in summer. Resembles the female. 



Nestling. " Whole of the upper surface, wings, and tail brown ; 

 under surface brownish buff ; behind the eye two narrow lines of 

 brown" (Goidd). 



Hah. Central and Southern China, Formosa and Japan ; Amoor- 

 land only during the breeding-season. 



rt, b. S ad. et In captivity. J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



juv. sk. _ [P.]. 



c. (5 ad. St. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d-ff. (5 2 ad. Shanghai, China, March, Nov. Seebohm Coll. 



sk. (R- Sivinhoe). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Formosa, August {R. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Japan. Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



/.-. 2 ad. sk. Japan. Leyden Museum [E.]. 



I. 2 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



