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a terminal one velvety black, bordering the glossy green speculum, 

 \vhich is bordered posteriorly by a subterminal velvety black band 

 and an apical one at the tip of the secondaries ; tertiaries brown, 

 but the outer ones mostly white on the outer web ; primaries brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; tail brown, the central 

 feathers velvety black with a green lustre, each feather with the 

 edge of the outer web pale : " iris reddish brown ; bill black, tip 

 chrome-yellow, the nail black ; base of the culmen yellow " (Legr/e) : 

 "mandible at the forehead red" (Oaies) : " tip of the lower man- 

 dible yellow ; legs and feet orange-yellow ; claws black " {Legge). 

 Total length about 24 inches, Aving 11, tail 5, culmen 2-25, tarsus 

 1-75. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller ; wing about 

 10 inches. 



Young. Wants the red at the base of the upple mandible (Oatcs), 

 and besides it is much less spotted on the underparts, where the 

 breast is unspotted white ; the dark spots on the lower neck and on 

 the abdomen are much smaller. 



Nab. India and Ceylon ; it extends to Independent Burmah ; 

 rarely, if ever, in Pegu and Tenasserim. 



