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Description. Adult, Male. Head blackish brown, as also 
the primaries ; neck, back, rump, upper tail coverts, scapularies 
secondaries and tertiaries, dark brown, all the under surface of 
a lighter brown than the upper; tail blackish with the tips al- 
bescent greyish brown, with two broad bands of the same colour 
on each tail feather, and the rudiments of a third at the base; 
the bands of the two centre tail feathers are perhaps more al- 
bescent than those on the lateral ones ; the rump and upper tail 
coverts are spotted with white, as also some of the upper wing 
coverts. Breast, abdomen, flanks, vent, lower tail coverts, 
under wing coverts, and thighs dotted profusely with roundish 
spots, largest on some of the under wing coverts, and abdomen, 
and smallest under the head of the wing, and thighs. Chin and 
throat unspotted, the feathers on the head forming a full broad 
crest nearly two inches in length, each feather of the head more 
or less margined with light rufous brown, a. trace of which is 
perceptible in all the feathers of the back. All the. feathers of 
the head and crest have their basal half white.. All the prima- 
ries, which are of a blackish brown, the secondaries, and tertia- 
ries have white greyish bands, beginning with a white tip to 
most of the feathers ; the first primary has two bars, the second 
four, the third four. A yellow naked skin passes from the cere 
which is also yellow, through the lores to over, and under the 
eyes, the portion over the eye being slight. Bill at point dark 
slate, basal portions of both mandibles, yellow ; feet, yellow ; 
claws, black ; irides, dark brown. 
2. Adult, female, similar to the last in all its markings, 
colours, &e. 
3. Young female, lighter brown than Nos. 1 and 2, the mar- 
gins of the feathers on the head more albescent rufous ; the spots 
on the wing coverts and rump, larger, rounder and more nu- 
merous than in either of the two preceding specimens, otherwise 
very like them. 
4. Young male, in colour very like No. 3, as also in all its 
markings, but being a much younger bird, the head is more 
albescent, each feather being margined with white, then a dark 
brown band 0:3, the rest of the feather white; a few dark 
blackish brown feathers on the forehead of the same hue as the 
head of the adult No. 1, the rump and upper tail coverts are 
less spotted than in No. 3. 
Remarks. This species is by no means uncommon on. all 
the islands of the Andaman group, but being the first new 
bird discovered there by me, I named it after the then reign- 
ing Viceroy of India, the Earl of Elgm. By the measurements 
and colouring, it will at once be seen how different it is from 
