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The male has the crest glossy black. 

 The whole upper plumage and the wing- 

 coverts are black, with very numerous, 

 fine, white vermiculations running, more 

 or less across the shaft. The exposed 

 part of the quills of the closed wing are 

 obliquely barred with white. Each feather 

 of the lower back and rump has a narrow 

 but unmistakable white fringe, but no 

 preceding black band, owing to the fre- 

 quency of the vermiculations, the first of 

 which is quite close to the fringe. The 

 outer web and the internal half of the 

 inner web of the two middle tail-feathers 

 are black with oblique white lines ; the 

 remainder of these two feathers is largely 

 white ; the other tail-feathers are black, 

 diagonally barred with white, the white 

 bars progressively decreasing in number, 

 the outer tail-feathers being chiefly black. 

 The whole lower plumage is glossy black. 



The female has the crest brown. The 

 whole upper plumage and the wings are 

 reddish brown, minutely vermiculated and 

 stippled with black, each feather edged 

 paler and some of the wing-coverts with 

 a white fringe and a preceding fine black 

 line. The throat is pale brown. The 

 lower plumage is reddish brown, many of 

 the feathers with a broad yellowish shaft- 



