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and below^ is bluish blacky — of different tints, indeedj^ 

 but in all parts dark ; upon this ground are many bold 

 bands^ stripes, and spots of white, giving the bird a 

 most elegant appearance. A large patch of this sort 

 fills up the side of the head between the eye and bill ; 

 another small and round one is just on the ear ; and a 

 third, longer and narrower, is behind it : the crown is 

 margined on each side by a stripe of white, which 

 changes to ferruginous after it passes the eye : at the 

 bottom of the neck is a narrow white collar, which sepa. 

 rates the deep black of the head and throat from the 

 cinereous or lavender-black of the breast : on each side 

 of the breast is a very broad transverse stripe of white, 

 margined above and below by a very narrow one of 

 velvet-black : the greater wing covers terminate in a 

 white bar, and the outer edges of the tertials are marked 

 with black and white stripes ; the speculum, which 

 covers all the secondary quills, is of a very dark glossy 

 blue : sides of the body and flanks chestnut brown : 

 vent, rump, and tail covers velvet-black : at the base of 

 the tail, on each side, is a white spot: the bill is 

 bluish black, and the legs dark brown : quills and tail 

 brownish. 



The female, which we have not seen, is thus de- 

 scribed by Dr. Richardson * : — '^' Above, dark liver- 

 brown : the quills and tail blackish brown : the rump, 

 and the flank feathers that hang down over the thigh, 

 pale umber : a spot behind the ears, a smaller one on 

 each side of the forehead, and some mottling under the 

 eye, white : upper part of the breast, and the sides, 

 under the wings, yellowish brown, edged with brownish 

 grey : rest of the under plumage greyish white, broadly 

 barred across the middle of each feather with clove- 

 brown. The size is much inferior to that of the male." 



* North. Zool. ii. 459. 



