222 BED-LEGGED PAKTBIDGE. 



Male; length, one foot one and a half to one foot two 

 inches; bill, bright red; a black band runs from its base to 

 the eye and down the neck, widening towards the front, 

 where both sides meet, and from it numerous black spots and 

 streaks descend towards the breast; iris, reddish orange; eyelids, 

 red; over the eye is a bare red space, and a white line runs 

 over it. Forehead, grey; sides of the head, white, tinged with 

 grey; crown, neck on the back, and nape, reddish brown; on 

 the sides, greyish white, tinged with brown and spotted with 

 black, margined with greyish brown, and followed by a broad 

 band of ash-colour; chin, white; throat, white, tinged with 

 grey; breast, light yellowish red; on the sides are broad bands 

 of red, followed by others of grey, white, black, and reddish 

 yellow; below, it is clear rufous; back, reddish brown, tinged 

 with grey. 



The wings, very short, extending to the width of one foot 

 nine inches, have the second, third, and fourth quills nearly 

 equal, and the longest, the first nearly as long as the sixth; 

 greater and lesser wing coverts, reddish brown, tinged with 

 grey; the primaries, greyish black, and, except the first, with 

 part of the outer webs yellowish brown; seven of the second- 

 aries have also part of the outer web dull yellow; they too 

 are greyish black, as are the tertiaries. The tail, of sixteen 

 feathers, has the four middle ones reddish brown, tinged 

 with grey, the others brownish red; upper tail coverts, 

 reddish brown, tinged with grey; under tail coverts, light 

 vellowish red. Legs, with a blunt spur, and toes, bright 

 red; on the first are five, on the second sixteen, on the 

 third twenty-two, and on the fourth eighteen narrow plates; 

 claws, dusky brown. 



Female; length, one foot one inch; the crescent on the 

 neck is narrower, and pale, and the spots on its lower part 

 much smaller; the legs, light yellowish brown, have no spur. 



