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with brownish-white, gradually becoming deeper toward the 

 proximate feathers, which are similar to the coverts. The lower 

 part of the back and tail coverts are deep chestnut, banded with 

 green and black. The tail feathers are of the same color, undu- 

 latingly bronzed and minutely sprinkled with black, and having 

 a broad, blackish bar toward the tip, which is pale brown, and 

 minutely mottled. The under parts are duller. Breast of the 

 same colors as the back, the terminal black bands not so broad ; 

 sides dark colored ; abdomen and thighs brownish-gray ; under 

 tail coverts blackish, glossed with bronze, and at the tip bright 

 reddish-brown. 



" Length, four feet one inch ; extent of wing, five feet eight 

 inches ; beak, one inch and a half along the ridge, two inches 

 along the gap. Tarsus, seven inches and one quarter ; middle 

 toe, five inches, hind toe tw) ; pectoral appendage one foot. 

 Such are the dimensions of an individual of which I made a 

 drawing, which I need not say was a fine specimen. 



" The female is considerably inferior in size, with the wattles 

 much smaller, the tuft on the breast comparatively small, and 

 only in old birds ; the color of the plumage duller, there being 

 but little of the refulgent hues of the male, the lower parts 

 brownish-black. The young, before being fledged, are pale 

 brownish-yellow, pale yellowish-gray below, the top of the head 

 brighter, mai'ked in the middle with a pale longitudinal brown 

 band ; the back and wings spotted with brownish-black, except- 

 ing the smaller wing coverts, which are uniformly dull brown " 



