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i^j. $,"J/." Crest: Anterior, brown thickly mottled ruddy buff — 

 Hybrid. structure same as female of "A" parent. 



Posterior black, mottled ruddy buff — structure hybrid. 

 Plate XXII, fig. 11 0,6. 



Anterior : length f of an inch. 

 Posterior : length 1 1 inches. 

 Ft. '^,"F." Crest: Anterior, brown mottled ruddy buff, hybrid — 

 Hybrid. structure hybrid. 



Posterior blue-black like "5" parent — structure hybrid. 

 Plate XXII, fig. 14a, b. 



Anterior : length \^ of an inch. 

 Posterior : length 1^^ inches. 

 Fi. % , "K." Crest : Posterior and Anterior, brown mottled ruddy buff — 

 Hybrid. stractuve hybrid. Plate XXII, fig. 12 a, 6. 



Anterior : length \i of an inch. 

 Posterior : length 1^ inches. 

 Fi. $, "G." Crest: Posterior and Anterior blue-black like "B" parent 

 Hybrid. but structure hybrid. Plate XXII, fig. 15 a, b. 



Anterior: length 1^ inches. 

 Posterior: length li| inches. 

 With one exception, pattern, colouration, form, length and structure 

 of the cre.st are hybrid throughout the "B," "A " series, and that exception, 

 Fi "0" (Plate XXII, fig. 15), had the structure hybrid. 



TAIL. (Plate XXIII.) 



Parent Species. 



Silver "B," $. Centrals: very finely mottled. 



Moults centrals Laterals: first pair vermiculated ; all the others 



before laterals. have sloping, irregular bands of alternate black 



and white, the black bands the widest. Plate 



XXIII, fig. 1. 

 Silver "Z," ?. Centrals: same as "5" ?. 



Laterals: all vermiculated; first and second pairs 



a finer, all the others a coarser pattern. 

 Swinhoe "A," $. Central rectrices : pattern, wide bands thickly 

 Moults laterals mottled, divided by narrow ruddy buff bands, 



before centrals. Plate XXIII, fig. 3 a. 



Laterals: copper brow'n, inner margins mottled 



black, tips black. Plate XXIII, fig. 3 b. 



