84 FEATHERED GAME 



bright and varying shades of golden yellow or 

 light chestnut. The forehead with a band of 

 white running from eye to eye, black-bordered 

 above and joined by a narrow thread above the 

 eye with the white patch behind, this gradually 

 changing into the grayish brown of the hind 

 head. A black band from the base of the bill, 

 passing below the eye through the ear coverts 

 and fading into the brown of the nape. Throat 

 white, this color carried entirely around the 

 neck in a narrow collar. Below this two collars 

 of black; the first completely, the second par- 

 tially, encircling the body, and between these an 

 incomplete band of white. Wings the same 

 shade of brownish gray as on the back, with 

 a crossbar of white formed by the tips of the 

 greater coverts. Primaries black, with a con- 

 siderable area of white on the outer webs of 

 the inner one. For the rest below, pure white. 

 Central tail feathers dark greenish brown, 

 growing blackish toward the ends, tipped with 

 tawny or white. Side tail feathers lighter, with 

 several dark barrings, the outer pair nearly 

 white, less distinctly barred. Bright orange on 

 eyelids. Bill black; legs pale yellow. Length 

 from nine to ten and spread of wings about 



