120 HEX HAKETER. 



The young are at first covered with white down the males 

 are smaller than the females, and lighter coloured. The 

 females, as they advance in age, change the brown for more 

 of grey, and the light for greyish yellow; the bars on the 

 wings shew more distinctly, from the intervals becoming 

 lighter, which also encroach upon them. The males gradually 

 change from brown to. grey, commencing the change when 

 about a year old: the former, however, is their bridegroom's 

 attire. When fully fledged, the bill is blackish brown, yellow 

 at the base; cere, yellow; iris, dark brown; head and neck, 

 brown edged with rufous; the ruff the same, but paler at 

 the edges. Breast, brownish red, each feather having a 

 central band of brown; back, rich brown; primaries and 

 secondaries, edged with brownish grey, the dark bands indis- 

 tinct, except on the inner webs. The tail has four bands of 

 dark brown, and four of pale red, the end one of the latter 

 colour fades into white ; upper tail coverts, white spotted with 

 brown; legs, yellow; toes, blackish brown. 



