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far east as Trebizond. Mr. Blyth has found this species in 

 India. 



The length of the adult male is about seventeen inches. 

 The beak is nearly black ; the cere greenish yellow, and 

 partly hid by the radiating hairs of the lore ; the irides 

 bright yellow ; the head, the whole of the neck, back, 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, bluish grey ; the 

 secondaries with three dark bars across, the last of which 

 is visible externally when the wing is closed ; the primaries 

 almost black; upper surface of the central tail-feathers 

 bluish grey ; the lateral tail-feathers white, barred with 

 reddish orange ; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, white 

 with various longitudinal streaks of reddish orange ; under 

 wing-coverts barred with reddish brown ; under surface of 

 tail-feathers dull white, barred with dusky grey ; legs and 

 toes slender and yellow ; the claws black. 



A young male in my own collection, from which the 

 figure was taken, killed while undergoing his second moult, 

 and in a gradual state of change, has the top of the head 

 and the feathers round the cheeks a mixture of brown and 

 rufous, ear-coverts grey ; occiput varied with white ; the 

 nape, back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail-coverts, lead 

 grey ; upper surface of all the tail-feathers, except the two 

 in the middle, barred with two shades of brown and rufous ; 

 middle tail-feathers, with the outer webs uniform pearl 

 grey ; the inner webs with five dark brown bands on a 

 greyish ground ; wing-primaries and secondaries blackish 

 brown ; great wing-coverts dark brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 lighter brown varied with rufous, and two or three grey 

 feathers : chin, and front of neck, pearl grey ; breast, belly, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts, white, with a longitudinal 

 rufous stripe on the centre of each feather ; under surface 

 of tail-feathers barred with greyish white and brown ; legs, 

 toes, and claws as in the adult male. 



