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with black and white, sometimes associated with chestnut ; axillaries 

 white, marked with brown ; under tail-coverts very deep chestnut, 

 with more or less black. Upper scapulars black, broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a broad shoulder-bar ; the rest of the scapulars and 

 the lesser wing-coverts deep maroon-chestnut, the margins of the 

 feathers reflecting a fiery metallic tint ; a broad daub of steel blue- 

 black occurs on the shoulder at the edge of scapulars ; greater wing- 

 coverts deep chestnut, with a black bar succeeded by a broad white 

 tip, forming a very distinct white band across the wing ; tertiary 

 quills coloured in the same manner, but with the tips tinged with 

 yellowish and mottled with black ; secondaries similar to last, with 

 inner or hidden half of feathers blackish brown, and the broad half 

 of outer web mottled with same ; primaries brown, the outer webs 

 and tips more or less mottled reddish buff; lower back and rump 

 steel-black, beautifully barred with white, each feather having a 

 central bar, a more or less distinct basal bar, and a tip of white ; some 

 of these feathers near the tail are tipped with cream-colour instead of 

 white. Upper tail-coverts grey, minutely mottled with black, with 

 broad bars of chestnut bordered with black. Tail barred alternately 

 with stone-grey (i inch) and chestnut (1 inch), the latter bordered 

 basally with black ; on the lateral rectrices the black border broadens, 

 and some of the bands are bordered both on forward and basal 

 edge. 



Fresh male shot towards end of November 1871. — Entire length 

 30 inches; tail 17*5, of sixteen greatly graduated feathers, the two 

 centrals exceeding the next by 5 - 75 ; wing 9 inches; tarse 3 ; middle 

 toe and claw 2"4. Bill lemon horn-colour; iris light chestnut ; legs 

 satiny bluish grey, or pale clear lead-colour ; face-skin bright scarlet ; 

 spur long and sharp. Crop crammed with seed-pods, seeds, berries, 

 and leaves in much variety. Served on table its flesh was white, 

 firm, close-grained, and tender, but to my taste not equal in flavour 

 to that of the P. torquatus about Ningpo. 



Female. — Skin round eye bare and crimson, sprinkled with a few 

 small feathers ; lower eyelid clothed with minute cream-coloured 

 feathers ; loral space and head reddish cream, with the crown chest- 

 nut-brown, the feathers centred with black ; throat and under neck 

 black; face and rest of neck grey, washed with fawn-colour, the 

 feathers below the bare skin dotted with black ; breast fawn-colour, 

 the feathers margined with white and banded with black spots ; belly 

 white, the flanks irregularly barred with dusky fawn-colour, and 

 occasionally with narrow black, some feathers having white central 

 streaks; under tail-coverts black, banded at times with deep chestnut, 

 and all broadly tipped with white; axillaries fawn, with cream-white 

 margins, the under wing-coverts having such margins bordered 

 inwardly with blackish. Dorsals greyish chestnut, with an arrow- 

 head centre of white to each, and one narrow and one bread bar of 

 black with a tip of olive grey ; scapulars light yellowish brown, 

 mottled with blackish and patched on inner webs with black aud 

 tipped with whitish; wing-coverts chestnut-brown, margined, except 

 about the shoulder, with whitish, and irregularly mottled and 



