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of these birds at all minutely, and I shall 

 therefore content myself with merely 

 pointing out the chief features of the 

 plumage of the two sexes in a brief 

 manner. 



In the male the crest and crown are 

 black and the back of the neck barred 

 with brown and grey. The mantle and 

 almost the whole of the visible parts of 

 the closed wing are black barred and 

 spotted with buff. The back and rump 

 are chestnut spotted with black. The 

 lower plumage is beautifully marked with 

 undulating bars of black, rufous and buff. 

 The first ten quills are of normal length, 

 and variegated with spots of different 

 shapes and colours. The other quills 

 are of extraordinary length, black, barred 

 with buff on their outer edge and with a 

 series of large ocelli on the outer web 

 next the shaft. The middle two tail- 

 feathers are chiefly rufous on the outer, 

 grey on the inner, web, and spotted with 

 black and white; the others are chiefly 

 rufous, spotted in a similar manner with 

 black and white. 



In the female the crown and crest are 

 blackish marked with buff. The upper 

 part of the mantle is chestnut slightly 

 marked with black. The lower part of 



