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Adult female. In general plumage resembling the adult 

 male, but having the forehead and crown black, each feather 

 with a spot of white at the tip, these spots being more minute 

 and closer together upon the forehead and tinged with buff, 

 the occipital crest alone being crimson ; moustachial stripe 

 black, with the tips of the feathers greyish ; chin and throat 

 deeper buffj axillaries pale buff, spotted with dusky ; "bill 

 dusky, paler beneath ; iris pink ; legs greenish horny " {IV. 

 T. Blanford). Total length 7*3 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 4'3, 

 tail 2*5, tarsus 0'8. 



Young male. More dusky above than the adult, and having 

 the spots upon the back, also the notches and bars upon the 

 quills, larger and whiter ; shafts of quills nearly white ; upper 

 tail-coverts more golden and tipped with the same; tail 

 paler ; shafts pale yellow ; foreliead and crown black, the 

 tips of a few of the feathers being red ; occipital crest also 

 red, this colour being more of a scarlet than crimson ; a 

 white strij)e under the eye ; ear-coverts nearly black, finely 

 streaked with white ; moustache crimson, the bases of the 

 feathers black ; chin and throat more buff; under surface of 

 the body whiter, and the spots not of such an intense black ; 

 axillaries buflfy white; "iris pearl-grey ^^ {JV. T. Blanford). 

 Total length 7*0 inches, culmen TO, wing 4'2, tail 2*5, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



Young female (May 30th) . Differing from the young male 

 in having the forehead and crown black, the occipital crest 

 alone being scarlet; a very minute white spot upon the 

 tips of a few of the feathers of the forehead, but scarcely 

 visible to the naked eye ; the back less olive than in the 

 young male described, which was shot July 29th [Jesse) ; 

 malar stripe black, Avith elongated spots of white, giving it a 

 streaked appearance ; the throat more buflF; under surface of 

 the body pale buff, and not washed with sulphur-yellow ; tail 

 slightly darker; shafts more golden; "iris pearl-grey'' {W. 

 T. Blanford). Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 

 4-25, tail 2'4, tarsus 0"87. 



The stages of plumage in this species are very varied : 

 first, the young male^ with the forehead, crown, and crest 



