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pendant gular apron, characteristic of the genus, but the speci- 

 mens that I have seen, though some of these were certainly 

 adult males, entirely wanted these appendages. 



However, Mr. Damant informs me that in life one of the 

 males he sent me had horns three-quarters of an inch in length, 

 and of a bright azure blue. 



According to notes furnished to me by Dr. Jerdon, recorded 

 from the type, an apparently adult male, before he skinned it, 

 had the chin and upper portion of the throat and the orbital region, 

 which are bare, yellow, here and there tinged greenish ; the 

 bill greenish horny ; the legs and feet dull yellowish homy ; and 

 the irides pale brown. 



Not improbably these colors may vary somewhat according 

 to sex, age and season. 



Dimensions of Adult Males from dried skins. — Length, 21 to 

 23; wings, 1025 to 1075 ; tarsus, 3 to 35; mid-toe, 2-3 to 

 2*5; its claw, straight, 08 to 0*9; spur, about 0-6; bill at 

 front from base of frontal plumes, 1*0 to 1*1 ; corneous portion 

 only 0*55 ; from gape, 13 to 1*4; from end of bare gular skin 

 to tip of lower mandible, 2*3 to 29. 



One fine male before me has two spurs on the same level on 

 one leg. I presume this to be a purely accidental monstrosity. 

 The following is a description of the plumage of the adult 

 male : — 



The frontal plumes, and a narrow streak on the centre of the 

 crown ; a narrow band surrounding the bare gular space, and 

 running up to the ear-coverts ; these latter and a broad stripe 

 running backwards from them nearly to the occiput, black ; the 

 rest of the head, the whole neck all round, and the upper breast, 

 bright orange maroon, but with a ferruginous tinge in places, 

 owing to the basal portions of the feathers, which are pale ferru- 

 ginous yellow, showing through ; the occipital feathers are 

 slightly lengthened, forming a full short crest ; the lesser upper 

 wing-coverts are uniform bright maroon red ; the back, rump, 

 scapulars, and median wing-coverts, and all but the longest upper 

 tail-coverts, much resemble the same parts in melanocephala ; the 

 feathers are black, with numerous narrow, wavy, buffy or fulvous 

 fawn-coloured bars, and near the tip a white spot in the centre 

 surrounded by a dove grey halo and a maroon blotch on each side ; 

 the spots being smallest and the maroon lightest on the upper 

 back, and largest and richest in tint on the rump ; the 

 longest upper tail-coverts want the rufous and white spots, 

 but are very broadly tipped with greyish white or albescent, 

 having a subterminal rufous quarter-inch bar, and a very 

 narrow terminal black one; the tail is black, the basal three-fifths 

 with very numerous narrow, transverse, irregular, freckled 



