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nearly in its plumage to IZ. Welanotis, and (in a slightly less 
degree) to I. Govinda, it is fully as large as I. Regalis, has 
portion of the ear-coverts white, the feathers black shafted, and, as they 
approach the breast, tinged with dull rufous. Scapulars, umber brown, 
beautifully glossed with purple, and tinged with an almost golden yellow 
towards the extreme tips. The whole of the lesser and median coverts, 
purplish brown, but with nearly the whole visible portion of the tips, rufous, 
or orange, with the shafts conspicuously darker. The winglet, the greater 
primary coverts, and the first few primaries, almost black, but with a purple 
gloss. The later primaries, secondaries, and tertials, umber brown, all more 
or less glossed with purple. The secondaries, darkest and most richly 
glossed. The tail, with excessively broad feathers, (central ones 2°5 in 
breadth) and much forked, (the external tail feathers being fully 2 inches 
longer, than the central pair,) a dull umber brown, growing deeper in shade 
as the feathers recede from the centre, all narrowly tipped with white, and 
obscurely banded with 8 or 9 broad transverse somewhat darker bars. The 
rump and upper tail coverts like the scapulars, but somewhat paler. The 
vent, and lower tail coverts, and the tibial and tarsal plumes, are dull rufous 
buff, some of the feathers more or less mottled with greyish brown, and the 
tibial plumes faintly streaked with brown. There is a great deal of white, 
mottled with imperfect greyish brown bars, on the inner webs of the prima- 
ries, towards their bases ; a few of the larger, lower, wing-coverts are mingled 
grey and dark brown. The rest of the wing lining and axillaries are a rich, 
somewhat rufous, umber brown; the feathers more or less tinged towards 
the tips, or streaked with rufous, The lateral tail feathers, like the primaries, 
are white or greyish white on the inner webs towards the bases, and on 
these parts of course, the transverse bars are more apparent. 
2nd. Young KFemale——The forehead and lores whitish, feathers dark 
shafted, a narrow dark line over the eye, joming the conspicuous blackish 
brown patch, which runs from the posterior angle of the eye, over the ear 
coverts. The whole of the feathers of the top and back of the head, back 
and sides of the neck and upper back, rich purple brown, with a narrow, 
central, buffy white stripe, The feathers of the top of the head, dark shafted, 
The whole of the scapulars, tertiaries, rump and upper tail coverts, lesser and 
median wing coverts, a rich purple brown; all the feathers, more or less 
conspicuously dark shafted, tinged golden towards the tips, and more or less 
pure white at the extreme tips. The secondaries, the richest glossy purple 
brown, tipped similarly to the feathers above described, but to a less extent, 
The first 6 primaries purplish black, very narrowly tipped with fulvous 
white, the other primaries similar to the secondaries ; but somewhat paler. 
The central tail feathers, not so broad, as in the adult, being only 2°2, wide ; 
and the tail not so forked; the exterior being only 0°75 longer than the 
central. The tail is an umber brown, purpler and less grey than in the 
more adult bird, somewhat broadly tipped with yellowish white, and with 
traces of dark bars, and much white on the inner webs towards the bases, as 
in the adult. The chin is whitish, the throat, cheeks, and basal portion of 
the ear-coverts dull rufous brown, the feathers white at their bases and 
inconspicuously darker shafted. Breast and upper abdomen and sides, rich 
umber brown, with moderately broad, rufous, buff, central stripes, the rufous 
buff, fading to pale fulvous towards the lower abdomen. Lower abdomen, 
vent, and tibial and tarsal plumes, pale fulvous, with ill-defined, brown 
stripes towards the margins of the feathers. Lower tail coverts slightly 
more rufous, a good deal freckled above the tips with pale greyish brown, 
