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thers at the back and sides of the base of tlte neck,, tipped and 

 faintly shaded towards the tips with metallic purple ; the pri- 

 maries and their greater coverts plain brown, a sort of pale grey- 

 ish liver brown ; some of the primary greater coverts faintly 

 margined with buff; the whole of the rest of the visible por- 

 tions of the closed wing, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail a dark brown ground, on which a finer or coarser buffy - 

 net-work of varying shades is everywhere overlaid. This net- 

 work is coarser and has much larger meshes, if I may use the 

 term, on the tail, and is much finer on the scapulars and inter- 

 scapulary region. It is more purely buffy on the wings and 

 interscapulary region, redder on the back, rump, and shorter 

 upper tail-coverts, and paler and more creamy, as a rule, on the 

 tail, except at the tip beyond the occelli, where it is decidedly 

 more rufous. 



On the central tail feathers a pair of huge oval green occelli, 

 surrounded by a black line and above by a buffy one also, and 

 011 the outer webs only, of each of the lateral tail feathers one 

 similar but almost larger occellum. (In thibetanum, the occelli 

 are on both webs of the lateral tail feathers.) All the longest 

 row of upper tail-coverts have also a pair of large, somewhat 

 rounder occelli, one on each web coalescing on tlie shaft. One 

 or two of the longest central feathers of the next row of upper 

 tail-coverts have similar but much smaller and rounder occelli 

 near the tips ; the interscapulary region, the scapulars, the 

 lengthened tertials, the median, secondary and tertiary coverts, 

 each bear a single occellum, close to the tip, extending over 

 both webs, with the usual black line usually entirely encircled 

 by another buff line. These of course are very much smaller 

 than those on . the tail, and especially on the interscapulary 

 region, median coverts and lesser scapulars, where they are 

 almost perfectly round ; everywhere the occelli are in the 

 majority of lights green ; a regular beetle green, but all in some 

 lights are purple, as indeed is the metallic portion of the crest, 

 and all that can be said is that the occelli of the upper part of 

 the back and wings are bluish and purple in more lights than 

 the others. The chin and throat are fulvous -white or very 

 pale buff, a little barred at the base of the throat ; the feathers 

 just at the base of the neck in front are pale buff, rather coarse- 

 ly and irregularly vermicilated with blackish brown ; the whole 

 of the breast and greater part of the abdomen are hair brown, 

 closely and delicately vermicilated, (most densely on the breast) 

 or it might be said freckled, with narrow imperfect zig-zag buff 

 lines ; sides of the body, veut, flanks, lower tail-coverts hair 

 brown ; the tips of the latter and those of some of the flank 

 feathers vermicilated with buff. 



