124 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



edges of eye-lids bright red. Feet dull orange; claws black. 

 Upper part of the head, and space between the bill and the 

 eye, deep green and highly glossed ; below the latter space a 

 patch of dark purple, and a larger one of the same color, but 

 lighter, behind the eye ; sides of the neck, its hind parts under 

 the crest and the middle all round very dark purple. A narrow- 

 line along the base of the upper mandible and over the eye, 

 meeting on the occiput, very pure white, as are some of the 

 feathers of the crest ; another from behind the eye, meeting 

 below the occiput, and including several of the lower elongated 

 feathers. Throat for more than three inches pure white, with 

 a process on each side a little beyond the eye, and another 

 nearly half way down the throat. Sides of the neck, and its 

 lower part anteriorly, reddish-purple, each feather on the latter 

 with a triangular white tip. Middle of the neck behind, back 

 and rump, very dark reddish-brown, the latter deeper and 

 tinged with green ; upper tail coverts and tail greenish-black ; 

 some of the lateral tail coverts dull reddish-purple, a few on 

 either side with their filaments light red. Smaller wing coverts, 

 alula, and primaries dull grayish-brown ; most of the latter 

 with part of their outer web grayish-white, and their inner 

 toward the tip darker and glossed with green. Secondary quills 

 tipped with white, the outer webs green, with purple reflec- 

 tions ; those of the inner secondaries and scapulars velvet black, 

 their inner webs partially glossed, and changing to green. The 

 broad feathers anterior to the wings are white, terminated with 

 black ; breast and abdomen grayish-white ; feathers under the 

 wings yellowish-gray, minutely undulated with black and white 

 bars ; lower wing coverts and axillar features white, barred 

 with grayish-brown ; lower tail coverts dull grayish-brown. 



" Length, 20+ inches; to the end of claws, 17|; extent of 

 wings, 28; bill, iVV ; tarsus, I/2 ; middle toe and claw, 2t2-, 

 wing from flexure, 9 ; tail, 41. 



" Adult female. 



" The female is considerably smaller, and differs greatly from 

 the male in coloring. The feathers of the head are not elon- 



