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tips; alula and greater coverts blackish brown, the latter with green and 
purple gloss; tail and its upper coverts black, glossed with green; middle 
pair of rectrices curved outward and about twice the length of next pair.. 
Top of head decorated with a deeply emarginated, fleshy comb, crimson 
in color; a wattle on each side of throat also crimson; a round lappet 
below each ear light bluish; other bare areas of head and neck pale crim- 
son; bill dark brown above, lighter below; legs gray, spurs black, nails 
dark brown. The length varies greatly, of course, with the development 
‘of central rectrices. A male from Mariveles, Bataan measures, 660 in 
length; wing, flat on rule, 235; tail, 368; bill from front of comb, 17; 
tarsus, 74; middle toe with claw, 59; spur, 24. A male from Fuga, tail, 
508; spur, 28. 
“Adult female-—Top of the head rust-red, shading into orange on the 
neck and pale yellow on the upper mantle, each feather with a wide 
black stripe down the center; rest of upper parts pale reddish brown, 
finely mottled with black and with pale shafts; quills blackish brown, 
the outer half of the outer webs of secondaries mottled with pale reddish 
brown; fore part of neck chestnut; chest and breast pale light red, 
shading into pale reddish brown on sides, flanks, and belly, each feather 
with a pale shaft; under tail-coverts brownish black; tail-feathers like 
the secondaries, the center pair of feathers mottled on the margins of 
both webs, and the outer pairs on the outer web, with pale rufous. Soft 
parts much the same as those of the male; comb very much smaller, and 
wattles absent. Length, 420; wing, 190; tail, 140; tarsus, 61. 
“Immature males have the hackles of the mantle much paler than in the 
majority of adult birds and mostly with dark shaft-stripes; the chestnut 
part of the outer webs of the secondaries finely mottled with black nearly 
to the margins; the feathers underlying the hackles of the mantle dull, 
brownish black without any green gloss, and the comb and wattles rudi- 
mentary.” (Grant.) 
Chick.—Below light yellow-buff, palest on chin; throat, upper breast, 
and sides of neck washed with brownish buff; top and sides of head dark 
yellow-buff ; a band from above angle of mouth backward through eye to 
side of neck dark cinnamon, bordered above with blackish brown; middle 
of crown and hind neck with a wide, black-bordered cinnamon patch 
which becomes diffused on interscapular region, reappears on middle of 
back and is continued to the tail; the black bordered on each side with 
light buff followed by dark brown; wings and tail light brown, speckled 
-and vermiculated with darker brown. Iris light brown; bill, legs, and 
- nails flesh. Small chicks were taken in Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 
March 8, 1902, and at Irisan, Province of Benguet, on April 30, 1903. 
f iio Nest.—A slight hollow dug in the earth in the shelter of bushes or 
E ass is the usual nest. The eggs are much smaller than with domestic 
" yarieties ; four from a nest found February 26, 1904, near Mariveles, 
