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tips; alula and greater coverts blackish brown, the latter with green and 

 purple gloss ; tail and its upper coverts black, glossed with green ; middle 

 pair of rectrices curved outward and about twice the length of next pair. 

 Top of head decorated with a deeply emarginated, fleshy comb, crimson 

 in color; a wattle on each side of throat also crimson; a round lappet 

 below each ear light bluish ; other bare areas of head and neck pale crim- 

 son ; bill dark brown above, .lighter below ; legs gray, spurs black, nails 

 dark brown. The length varies greatly, of course, with the development 

 of central rectrices. A male from Mariveles, Bataan measures, 660 in 

 length; wing, flat on rule, 235; tail, 368; bill from front of comb, 17; 

 tarsus, 74 ; middle toe with claw, 59 ; spur, 24. A male from Fuga, tail, 

 508; spur, 28. 



"Adult female. Top of the head rust-red, shading into orange on the 

 neck and pale yellow on the upper mantle, each feather with a wide 

 black stripe down the center; rest of upper parts pale reddish brown, 

 finely mottled with black and with pale shafts; quills blackish brown, 

 the outer half of the outer webs of secondaries mottled with pale reddish 

 brown; fore part of neck chestnut; chest and breast pale light red, 

 shading into pale reddish brown on sides, flanks, and belly, each feather 

 with a pale shaft; under tail-coverts brownish black; tail-feathers like 

 the secondaries, the center pair of feathers mottled on the margins of 

 both webs, and the outer pairs on the outer web, with pale rufous. Soft 

 parts much the same as those of the male ; comb very much smaller, and 

 wattles absent. Length, 420 ; wing, 190 ; tail, 140 ; tarsus, 61. 



"Immature males have the hackles of the mantle much paler than in the 

 majority of adult birds and mostly with dark shaft-stripes; the chestnut 

 part of the outer webs of the secondaries finely mottled with black nearly 

 to the margins; the feathers underlying the hackles of the mantle dull, 

 brownish black without any green gloss, and the comb and wattles rudi- 

 mentary." ( Grant. ) 



Chick. Below light yellow-buff, palest on chin; throat, upper breast, 

 and sides of neck washed with brownish buff ; top and sides of head dark 

 yellow-buff; a band from above angle of mouth backward through eye to 

 side of neck dark cinnamon, bordered above with blackish brown ; middle 

 of crown and hind neck with a wide, black-bordered cinnamon patch 

 which becomes diffused on interscapular region, reappears on middle of 

 back and is continued to the tail; the black bordered on each side with 

 light buff followed by dark brown; wings and tail light brown, speckled 

 and vermiculated with darker brown. Iris light brown; bill, legs, and 

 nails flesh. Small chicks were taken in Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 

 March 8, 1902, and at Irisan, Province of Benguet, on April 30, 1903. 



Nest. A slight hollow dug in the earth in the shelter of bushes or 

 grass is the usual nest. The eggs are much smaller than with domestic 

 varieties; four from a nest found February 26, 1904, near Mariveles, 



