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body, purplish red* tinged with gray, particularly 

 on the under parts, where it is also paler, and on 

 the ch eks and auriculars it Is slightly tinged with 

 chestnut red ; the rump and upper tail coverts 

 are smoke gray ; the under tail coverts are dull 

 chostnut-brown ; the quills are black, the second, 

 third, and fourth tipped with white, whicli also 

 runs a short way along the outer webs, and oa 

 the fourth is tinted with yellow, the other quills 

 have the outer webs, for half an inch, gamboge 

 yellow, the whole forming a line when the wing 

 is closed ; the bastard quills are also black, 

 tipped with white ; the secondaries are smoke 

 pray, tinged with purplish gray on the inner 

 webs. In what we consider to be adult birds, 

 the shaft of the feather is elongated, and at the 

 tip is broadened into a flat oval appendage, similar 

 to what is observed in some of the Gallinaceous 

 birds, the Ibis lamelligera, &c. and is of a bril- 

 liant scarlet ; the inner web of the feather borders 

 this for about half its length, but the outer is 

 stopped near its commencement, and there exhi- 

 bits a triangular patch of white, sometimes slightly 

 tinged with yellow, and when the wing is closed, 

 continues more broadly the line of the markings 

 <m the quills ; the tail is black, slightly tinged 

 with gray, the feathers for a quarter of an inch 

 tipped with gamboge yellow. These feathers 

 also are sometimes tipped with an oval scarlet 

 appendage, always narrower than when present 

 on the secondaries, and sometimes occurring on 

 only a few of the feathers. 



