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F^. J, "if." Crest: Anterior, brown thickly mottled ruddy buff — 

 Hybrid. structure same as female of ''A" parent. 



Posterior black, mottled ruddy buff — structure hybrid. 

 Plate XXII, fig. 11a, 6. 



Anterior : length | of an inch. 

 Posterior: length 1| inches. 

 ^4. ?, "i^." Crest: Anterior, brown mottled ruddy buff, .hybrid — 

 Hybrid. stnicture hybrid. 



Posterior blue-black like " B " parent — structure hybrid. 

 Plate XXII, fig. 14 a, 6. 



Anterior : length J-| of an inch. 

 Posterior : length 1|| inches. 

 F^. $ , "K." Crest : Posterior and Anterior, brown mottled ruddy buff — 

 Hybrid. structure hybrid. Plate XXII, fig. 12 a, b. 



Anterior : length || of an inch. 

 Posterior : length 1 J inches. 

 F^. $, "(t." Crest: Posterior and Anterior blue-black like "B" parent 

 Hybrid. but structure hybrid. Plate XXII, lig. 15 a, b. 



Anterior: length 1^ inches. 

 Posterior : length li| inches. 

 With one exception, pattern, colouration, form, length and structure 

 of the crest are hybrid throughout the "B" "A " series, and that exception, 

 F, "(?" (Plate XXII, fig. 15), had the structure hybrid. 



Silver "j5," ?. 

 Moults centrals 

 before laterals. 



Silver "^," ?. 



Swinhoe "A," ? 

 Moults laterals 

 before centrals. 



TAIL. (Plate XXIII.) 



Parent Species. 



Centrals: very finely mottled. 



Laterals: first pair vermiculated ; all the others 



have sloping, irregular bands of alternate black 



and white, the black bands the widest. Plate 



XXIII, fig. 1. 

 Centrals: same as "5" %. 

 Laterals: all vermiculated; first and second pairs 



a finer, all the others a coarser pattern. 

 Central rectrices : pattern, wide bands thickly 



mottled, divided by narrow ruddy buff bands. 



Plate XXIII, fig. 3 a. 

 Laterals: copper brown, inner margins mottled 



black, tips black. Plate XXIII, fig. 3 b. 



