h, surmounts the crown of the head. It is raised or 

 lowered at the pleasure of the bird: on the forehead the feathers 

 lav smooth, but are disunited backwards. Head, reddish grey; 

 forehead, black, bordered with rust-colour shaded off; neck and 

 nape, reddish grey; chin and throat, velvet black; breast, 

 reddish grey above, mellowed below into a much fainter tint; 

 back, reddish grey. Greater wing coverts, black tipped with 

 white; lesser wing coverts, brownish ash-colour; primaries, 

 black, all but the first two or three marked upon the shaft 

 near the tip with a line of bright yellow, and in some speci- 

 mens the feathers are tipped with the same on the outer 

 webs, which are there white; secondaries, grey; three or four 

 or more of them tipped with white and a coral-like or wax- 

 like appendage, or prolongation of the shaft; they vary in 

 number : in one described by Montagu, there were five on one 

 side, and six on the other; tertiaries, pnrple grey, tipped with 

 white, some of them with the coral adjunct; greater and 

 lesser under coverts, greyish white, greyish ash-colour towards 

 the tips. Tail, ash-colour at the base, black in the central 

 portion, and bright yellow at the tip; in old birds it is. also 

 furnished with the wax-like appendages: upper tail coverts, 

 ash-colour; under tail coverts, reddish brown, with a tint of 

 orange; legs and toes, strong and black, the former scaled in 

 front, and the latter on their upper part; claws, black. 



The female resembles the male, but the colours are paler. 

 In the young birds the iris is chesnut brown, the crest is 

 shorter, the yellow on the quill feathers and the tail less 

 bright, and the coral appendages on the wings smaller, as well 

 as fewer in number, than in the mature bird, and entirely 

 wanting on the tail. The moult takes place in August or 

 September. 



