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hen, have very little gloss and are of a buff 

 colour. They measure from 175 to 1*95 

 in length and from 1*4 to i'5 in breadth. 



In the male the crest is glossy black. 

 The upper plumage and the wing-coverts 

 are black, very finely and closely vermicu- 

 lated with white, these vermiculations 

 being at right angles or slightly oblique to 

 the shaft. The exposed parts of the quills 

 of the closed wing are obliquely barred 

 with white. The two middle tail-feathers 

 are white, with a little black mottling on 

 the basal half of the outer web ; the other 

 tail-feathers progressively with more black 

 and less white, the outermost feather 

 being black with narrow diagonal white 

 lines. The lower plumage is black, 

 streaked with white ; the position and 

 number of these streaks varying in differ- 

 ent individuals, the streaks being some- 

 times distributed over the whole lower 

 plumage and sometimes confined to the 

 sides of the breast and body only. 



The general colour of the upper plumage 

 of the female is olive-brown, with a 

 decided rufous tinge, stippled minutely 

 with black or brown ; the sides of the 

 neck and the whole mantle with numerous 

 spearhead-shaped white marks. The two 

 middle tail-feathers are rufous, mottled 



