300 Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



The male has the crown of a bronze 

 colour, each feather with a concealed 

 white bar on it. The remainder of the 

 head is glossy green, and the whole neck 

 is glossy purplish blue. The mantle is 

 chestnut, each feather edged or tipped 

 with greyish bronze and with a small 

 black streak at the tip. The feathers 

 of the rump and back are black, each 

 with a wavy white cross-band and a 

 double terminal green band, the inner 

 deep, and the outer light, green. The 

 tail-coverts have long green fringes. There 

 is a patch of chestnut on each side of 

 the base of the tail. The tail-feathers 

 are rufous buff with a series of double 

 black spots at intervals of about three- 

 quarters of an inch. Most of the wing- 

 coverts are pale blue, some of the larger 

 ones nearer the body being dashed with 

 chestnut. The breast and belly are 

 steel-blue with green and coppery re- 

 flexions. The sides of the body are 

 coppery or chestnut, all the feathers 

 tipped wath black. The first ten quills of 

 the wing are mottled with pale buff. 



In the female the neck and the sides 

 of the head are barred with black and 

 buff. The throat is whitish or very pale 

 buff. The feathers of the mantle are 



