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thers; the secondaries having the whole of the outer webs 

 bright red, the inner webs spotted with white, some of the 

 innermost feathers being tipped with green, shafts black ; 

 tail and shafts black ; nasal plumes and stripe in front of the 

 eye black; forehead, crown, and occipital crest bright crimson, 

 the tips of the feathers being of this colour, the middle portion 

 being dusky black and the bases grey ; upon the side of the 

 occiput a crimson patch uniting with the red occiput, but 

 not running down below the ear-coverts ; a bright pale golden 

 yellow nuchal crest ; sides of the face and neck dull green ; 

 a broad crimson malar patch, the bases of the feathers dusky 

 black ; chin and upper throat dull buffy white, washed with 

 greenish ; from the fore neck to the abdomen, inclusive, dull 

 green, the flanks and thighs barred and spotted with yellow 

 or yellowish white, the partly concealed portion of the fea- 

 thers of the latter barred with dusky black and pure white ; 

 tibial plumes dingy bufi"; under tail-coverts dusky green, 

 a few of the upper feathers spotted with white upon both 

 webs, and having a barred appearance ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky, washed with olive on the edge of the wing, the whole 

 spotted with white or yellowish ; axillaries white, tipped with 

 yellow and barred with dusky black : " iris crimson ; orbital 

 skin greenish grey ; lower mandible and edges of upper man- 

 dible at gape dark greenish yellow ; upper mandible black ; 

 legs and feet pale green, claws greenish horny '' {W. Davison) . 

 Total length 10-75 inches, culmen 1*35, wing 5*1, tail 3'5, 

 tarsus 0*87 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*7, outer 

 posterior 0*62, inner anterior 0'55, inner posterior 0'27. 



Young male. Differs from the adult male in having the chin 

 and throat pale drab-brown ; the sides of the face and neck 

 pale dusky greenish ; under surface of the body dusky brown, 

 with a very slight green tinge, the breast sparingly crossed 

 by pale brown and dusky lines ; the flanks, thighs, and ab- 

 domen crossed by similar dusky lines, but also varied with 

 rounded spots of white ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, 

 barred with white ; the red on the wings duller. 



Adult female. May be distinguished from the adult male 

 by the absence of the red malar patch, the cheeks being of 



