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outer ones almost white. Bastard wing, primary coverts and primaries 

 black, with a greenish purple gloss. Secondaries black, with a greenish 

 purple gloss, the inner ones externally grey and the innermost ones colored 

 and marked like the back. 



Lower parts : Chin and throat black and naked, with a narrow median 

 patch of isabelline colored feathers between the bases of the lower mandi- 



FIG. 177. 



FIG. 178. 



Theristicits melanopis. Head from front, 

 showing bare region about the eyes. Male, 

 7856, Princeton University Collection. About 

 l natural size. 



Theristicus melanopis. Head, showing bare 

 skin on throat and about the eyes. Male, 

 7856, Princeton University Collection. About 



natural size. 



bles. Rest of the under neck whitish suffused into paler orange-chestnut 

 by the tips of each feather being that color. This color extends back to 

 and over the lower breast, being interrupted by a broken collar of grey 

 feathers on the sides of the chest. 



The rest of the lower parts slaty black ; the sides and flanks quite black ; 

 the under tail-coverts deep black, with a green gloss. Under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries black, with a greenish purple gloss. Quills from below dark 

 bronzy green. 



Feet " carmine or scarlet " (C. Darwin). 



Iris " scarlet " (C. Darwin). 



Burmeister says " bill and naked part of face and throat black ; the tip of 

 the bill dull greenish; feet dull fleshy red; iris paler brown." These 

 notes regarding the color of the legs and feet, as well as that of the iris, 

 probably refer to an adult bird in winter or to an immature individual. 



Female, eyes red, feet pink, bill black. 



