278 FEATHERED GAME 



is colored on the head and upper neck a 

 rich, metallic green, lustrous and glossy. A 

 sharply defined ring of white runs around 

 the neck at the base of this area, and be- 

 ginning under this the lower neck and up- 

 per breast are a rich, deep chestnut with a 

 purplish sheen, fading into the silver gray of 

 the lower breast and under parts of the body, 

 this gray color finely waved with faint darker 

 lines. Lower part of the back, rump, tail cov- 

 erts and crissum black. Tail feathers whitish, 

 central ones growing more dusky, and with two 

 black, up-curling feathers at the base of the 

 tail. Speculum (the bright patch in the wing 

 formed by the ends of some of the secondaries) 

 purplish, changing color with each different 

 view point, now purplish, now violet, now 

 green, and bordered about by a margin of black 

 feathers, these in turn being defined by a bar 

 of white showing at the ends of the coverts and 

 at the outer edge of the speculum. Iris brown ; 

 bill greenish yellow; feet and legs orange red 

 with webs a trifle darker and duller in tone. 

 The female is clad in a mixed and mottled dress 

 of black, dusky brown and tawny yellow, this' 

 last the body color, lighter in shade on the head. 



