68 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
around with white; back and sides of neck, lead color, each 
feather narrowly bordered with brownish black, entire upper 
parts, grayish blue, darkest on upper tail-coverts, where the 
feathers are faintly margined with white; tail, pale blue; wings 
like the back, but with a brownish tinge; the inner webs of the 
tertials broadly margined with white, and the outer webs of those 
nearest the primaries narrowly margined with yellowish white, 
forming a horizontal bar when the wing is closed; primaries, 
brown, grayish on the outer webs; upper part of breast, pale 
blue; lower part to abdomen, bright buff; flanks, dark chestnut, 
with a conspicuous white stripe along the shaft; abdomen, black, 
flanked by bright buff feathers, with a white stripe in the center, 
bordered with chestnut; vent and under tail-coverts, pale buff 
with grayish brown central stripe tinged with chestnut ; an up- 
right plume composed of five or six black feathers, curving for- 
ward, and the webs turned backward, each overlapping the one 
behind, rises from the forehead, sometimes bending over the 
bill; bill, black; feet andlegs, horn color. Total length, to inches; 
wings, 43; tail, 44; bill, 4; legs, 1}. 
Adult Female.—Differs from the male in having the upper 
parts tinged with olive-green; top of head, olive-brown, throat, 
dark buff, streaked with bluish gray; upper part of breast, gray- 
ish blue, rest of under parts pale buff, the feathers narrowly 
margined with blackish chestnut; flanks, chestnut with central 
white stripe; under tail-coverts, bronzy brown, margined with 
pale buff; wings asin the male, the tertials less conspicuously 
margined with white; tail, purplish blue; a short brownish black 
bunch of feathers rises from top of head, but does not bend for- 
ward; bill, black; legs and feet, horn color. Total length, 9% 
inches; wing, 4%, tail, 44; bill, 4; legs, 14. 
