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“ Feathers of the whole abdomen, sides and thighs, of a bright 
fulvous colour with a rufescent tinge, paler on the thighs ; each 
feather with two longitudinal rows of beautiful large oval 
white ocelli; each ocellus surrounded by an edging of dark, 
brown ; these ocelli very much resembling those which mark 
the plumage of the Argus Pheasant. The plumage of the 
abdomen and thighs, is very considerably unwebbed and 
setaceous, or rather crinose ; the feathers having the appearance 
of being composed of long, limp, setaceous hairs, (such as the 
bleached hempen-looking hairs one sees on the sides of the 
Mongoose and young Porcupine,) and are of an earthy fulvous 
colour towards the thighs, somewhat tinged with rufescent on 
the sides of the belly. Under-tail coverts, of a most beautiful 
bright rufous fulvous colour ; each feather with two rows of 
transversely oblong-shaped, jagged-edged, large white ocelli, 
each ocellus surrounded with an edging of dark blackish brown, 
shaded off lighter, which gives to these beautiful large ocelli, 
the appearance of the spots on a Leopard’s skin. Some of the 
central pairs of ocelli are transversely confluent, forming a bar 
across the feathers. 
“ Lesser upper wing coverts, blackish brown, sprinkled, here 
and there sparsely, with rather smallish, clear white spots. 
Greater upper wing coverts, brown tipped, here and there, 
with a few white specks. Winglet, (or little false wing) ashy 
black, marbled with white at the base of the feathers on their 
outer webs, and with ashy-white on the inner webs. The 
feathers are plain black towards their termination; the points 
slightly tipped with pure white. 
“The primary feathers have their quills of an umber brown 
colour. Outer webs of the primaries, for half their length, 
brown, Inner webs ashy brown, marbled with white and ash 
colour; the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth quill feathers 
haying, on their inner webs, on the upper side, only at half 
length, a large conspicuous light spot, half white towards the 
edge, and half ash colour towards the quill. Then there fol- 
lows next below this, a broad nebulous fulvescent, or fulvous 
ashy coloured bar, about three inches in breadth, which crosses 
the whole seven primary feathers ; on the under side of the wing, 
this bar is of a whitish ashy colour. ‘The remainder of the pri- 
mary feathers, for about four to four and a half inches to their 
tips, are black or dark blackish brown ; the first primary, which 
is much shorter than the rest, is very slightly tipped at the very 
apex with white; the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries, nar- 
rowly tipped with white; the second and third not tipped, but 
ending black. 
