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The above description of the soft parts as given by Hume refers 

 to both male and female. 



Measurements " Length 9'25 to 100 inches, wing 4'9 to 5"2, 



tail from vent 15 to 18, tarsus 1'65 to 1*83, bill at front I'Go to 1'85. 

 Weight 35 to 4^9 oz." (Hume.) 



Adult Female. — The circle round the eye and the band behind it 

 are pure white. The chin, throat, neck and extreme upper breast 

 a rich chestnut, with a broad pectoral band of blackish-brown run- 

 ning up as far as the scapulars and succeeded by a pure white band, 

 which is again followed by another brown band, interrupted in the 

 centre with white. The scapulars and back have not the buff mark- 

 ings of the male ; but the underlying scapulars are pure white, 

 forming a tuft of white feathers which show up through the others. 

 The wing-coverts and inner secondaries are a rather bright olive- 

 green, closely barred with black and more or less tinged reddish. 

 The general aspect of the closed wing is thus green in the female, 

 whilst it is a game-bird vermiculated-brown in the male. The 

 remainder of the plumage is like that of the male. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — " Bill greenish-yellow, fleshy at the tip of 

 both mandibles; feet pale green; iris dark brown." (A. E. Butler.) 



" The bill is olive-brown throughout in the cock, in the hen 

 brown at the base shading into flesh-colour at the tip." (Fliui.) 



I have not personally been able to discriminate between the sexes 

 as regards the colouration of the soft parts, and think the variations 

 are individual and not sexual. 



Measurements — " Length 975 to 1089 inches, wing 5'25 to 5(j, 

 tail from vent 1-65 to 20, tarsus I'VS to 1-9G, bill at front I'S to 2^05. 

 Weight 4-4 to G42 oz." (Hume.) 



" The j'oung birds of l)oth sexes resemble the male in plumage, 

 hut the female may be J.nown at all stages hij the presence of som.e 

 white scapular feathers. Females in every phase of plumage 

 between that of the male and that of the adult female are very 

 common in collections." (Oates.) 



'■ Young Male. — Eesem])les the old male almost exactly, l)ut has 

 the throat entirely white, the lower throat and foreneck washed with 

 l)rown, with some dusky streaks." (Sharjje.) 



Young females which have just acquired adult plumage have the 



