EUNETTA FALCATA 173 



Description. Adult Male. — "Crown deep chestnut; sides of the head 

 bronze-purple, greener posteriorly ; a long green mane on the back of the 

 nape ; throat and upper part of the neck white, intersected below by a green 

 collar ; mantle and upper scapulars with narrow crescentic bands grey and 

 lilaekish ; rump blackish ; liasal upper tail-coverts gi'ey, vermiculated witli 

 black, the longer ones black and entirely hiding the tail ; upper breast waved 

 with alternate crescentic bars of black and white, producing a regular scaly 

 appearance ; lower breast whitisli, each feather with black bars, one of which 

 is sub-terminal ; sides, flanks, and abdomen waved with narrow black and 

 greyish bands : under tail-coverts black, very long, and reaching beyond the 

 tail ; on each side of the under tail-coverts a very distinct buff patch, the 

 bases of the feathers being black, showing a beautiful black bar, which 

 separates a buli'y patch from another silky white band formed by the tip of 

 the lowest flank-feathers ; scapulars grey, narrowly waved with black, and 

 more or less distinctly whitish on the edges ; a black patch on the outer 

 scapulars : wing-coverts grey, the last row whitish ; wing-speculum on the 

 secondaries dark glossy green, bounded below liy a narrow whitish baud 

 at the tip of the secondaries ; tertials very long and narrow, sickle-shaped, 

 with the shafts whitish, the webs velvety glossy black, the edges and part of 

 the inner webs grey ; quills dark grey, almost blackish towards the tip ; 

 under wing-coverts white, but the greater ones grey ; axillaries white ; tail- 

 feathers grey, with narrow white edges ; bill greenish-black ; feet dull blue- 

 grey, darker on the web ; iris brown. Total length 19 inches, wing 10, tail 3, 

 culmen 1'8, tarsus 1'35." {Salvadori.) 



Colours of soft parts. — " Irides deep brown; bill perfectly black ; legs 

 and feet drab with an olive tinge : the webs, except immediately alongside the 

 toes (where they are unicolorous with these), and claws dusky black. A 

 frontal spot ending in a point on the culmen, about 0'4 inch long and 

 0'3 wide, pure white." {Hume.) 



Measurements. — " Of another Indian-killed male, the wing also measures 

 •J'") inches." (Hume.) " Bill from gape 2' 1 inches." [Blanf.) 



Female. — " Head and neck brown streaked with whitish, much paler 

 beneatli ; back and scapulars brown, with concentric pale-rufous bands ; 

 lower back and rump blackish ; upper tail-coverts brown, with concentric 

 pale bands ; tail-feathers brown ; quills brown ; speculum black, slightly 

 glossed with green ; wing-coverts greyish brown, with pale edges, especially 

 the greater coverts ; upper breast and sides dull-rufous, with concentric 

 brown bars; abdomen whitish, with a few bars or spots; under tail-coverts 

 rufescent, with brown marks." (Blanf.) 



Colours of soft parts. — " Bill, feet, and irides as in the male." 

 (Sdlvadon.) 



Measurements. — " Wing 9'8o to 10'06 inches, tail 3'23 to 3'57, bill at 

 front 1'75 to i'iil, tarsus I'iO to 1"62." (Schrciik.) " Length 16'0 inches, 

 wing 9'0, tail 3 1, tarsus 1'2. (Dresser.) 



