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8'. General colour darker, more 

 intense coppery red ; black 

 markings of mantle, chest, and 

 Hanks glossed with greenish 

 blue or purple, as the sides of 



neck 1. colchicus (p. 385). 



b. Wing-coverts white, yellowish white, or 

 silvery grey. 

 y. Middle of breast and sides of belly 

 dark green ; centre of belly brownish 

 black. 

 c'. Throat coppery maroon; a white 

 collar, 

 e'. White collar wide and complete 

 or nearly complete in front ; 

 maroon colour of the throat 

 divided from the cheeks by a 

 streak of bluish green ; crown, 

 nape, and hind-neck with pre- 

 vailing green gloss ; forehead, 

 sides of neck, and tips of 

 throat-feathers with prevailing 

 greenish-blue gloss ; chest and 

 mantle with prevailing bluish 

 and purplish gloss ; middle of 

 breast green ; black markings 

 of flanks purplish and greenish [(p. 396). 



blue 14. turcestanicus 



i?'. White collar narrower and more 

 interrupted in front ; only the 

 very tips of the maroon feathers 

 bordering the cheeks below 

 with light greenish gloss ; pre- 

 vailing metallic gloss purple 

 and bronze on the crown, nape, 

 and hind-neck, dark yellowish 

 green on forehead, bronzy green 

 on sides of neck and on tips of 

 throat-feathers, as also on chest, 

 mantle, and middle of breast ; 

 black markings of flanks glossed 

 with green. 

 a". Collar wider and less inter- 

 rupted; wing-coverts without 

 blackish centres or only 

 slightly clouded 13. mongolicus (p. 395). 



