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forming part of the mantle. The wing lining, axillaries, 

 flanks, tibial plumes, and shorter under tail-coverts are barred 

 black and white ; the latter in most cases strongly tinged, and 

 suffused with ferruginous and chesnut. The chin and throat 

 white, more or less tinged rufescent, with a few small blackish 

 brown spots down the centre ; the front of the neck and breast 

 a sort of dingy ferruginous brown, the central feathers with 

 long black and buffy white streaks ; the abdomen white, more 

 or less strongly tinged rusty ; the feathers everywhere, moi'e or 

 less, freckled and mottled with imperfect irregular blackish 

 brown transverse bars ; the longest tail coverts pure white, 

 with a few imperfect irregular blackish bars towards the tip. 



The female procured at the same time and place measured : — 



Length, 17; expanse, 29*5; tail, from vent, 3; wing, 9*12; 

 tarsus, 2*3 ; bare portion of tibia, 08 ; bill, from gape, 2"4 ; 

 bill, at front, 1-8 ; weight, 075 lbs. 



The legs and feet were dull green ; claws horny ; irides 

 greenish yellow; the upper mandible horny brown, edged with 

 dull green ; the lower mandible greenish horny ; she differs 

 from the male in having no line of dark spots down the centre of 

 the chin and throat ; in having no feathers of the crest as 

 dark as in the male, and in having several of them, and 

 amongst others the longest, a sort of purplish red instead of 

 black; the whole mantle is somewhat paler, and the quills are 

 markedly slatey ; the barrings of the wing lining, sides, &c, 

 are much less conspicuous, and less tinged with ferruginous ; 

 the ground color of the breast is more of a fawn color, tinged 

 with ferruginous, and there is very much more white about 

 the abdomen, and this is less rufescent than in the male. 



A young female measured : — Length, 18 - 75 ; expanse, 36'5 ; 

 tail, from vent, 3°5 ; wing, 10 ; tarsus, 2'6 ; bare portion of 

 tibia, 1*12; bill, at front, 1*8. 



The whole of the top, sides and back of the head and back of 

 the neck black ; each feather, including those of the crest, 

 with a larger or smaller white subterminal spot, which, espe- 

 cially on the longer crest and neck feathers, are more or less 

 cuneiform ; besides these there is a tiny white dot at the tips 

 of most of the feathers. The chin and throat are white, and 

 the cheeks, sides and front of the neck are buffy or buffy 

 white, all or more or less mottled, or imperfectly barred with 

 blackish brown ; the breast and abdomen are rufous buff, 

 most of the feathers, with white central streaks towards their 

 bases, some of them with one web entirely deep brown, and all 

 of them more or less freckled, or irregularly barred, or 



