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sides with pure white central streaks ; the lowest portion of 

 which streaks in some few feathers, in some specimens, are 

 tinged with orange or pale ferruginous. 



The female has a coronal crest, but of nearly normal feathers, 

 and this, with the whole of the top and back of the head and 

 back and sides of the neck, is a deep chestnut ; the sides and 

 back of the neck in some specimens a little streaked with white ; 

 the chin and throat are white ; the ear-coverts, brown with more 

 or less of a chestnut tinge, darker colored at their tips ; the 

 foreneck is the same deep chestnut, always much streaked 

 with white, and in some specimens with black also; the breast 

 feathers are black, more or less broadly tipped with the color 

 of the back of the neck, and more or less broadly margined 

 laterally with white; the abdomen, except just above the vent, 

 and the sides and flanks, are black or blackish brown, broadly 

 margined everywhere with white, and some of the feathers of 

 the sides and flanks, and in some specimens of the sides of the 

 abdomen, a little suffused towards the tips, inside the white 

 margins with chestnut ; the lower part of the abdomen above 

 the vent plain grey brown, broadly fringed at the tips with 

 greyish white, which is the only color seen where the feathers 

 are not disturbed ; lower tail-coverts black, more or less broadly 

 tipped, and more or less suffused elsewhere, with deep ferrugi- 

 nous chestnut. 



The tail and the longest row of upper tail-coverts deep ferru- 

 ginous chestnut, finely freckled and mottled with black ; the 

 black often more or less wanting, sometimes entirely so on the 

 lateral tail feathers -, primaries deep brown ; their outer webs 

 pale chestnut, obsoletely freckled with brown ; the middle of the 

 back, rump, all but the longest upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, tertiaries, and the visible portion of the outer webs of 

 the secondaries, a rather more orange and less chestnut ferru- 

 ginous, everywhere excessively minutely vermicilated with 

 black zig-zaggy hair lines. 



I have already, S. F., V., 119, dwelt on the differences be* 

 tween this species and Ignitus, and have there described a young 

 male of this species, just moulting for the first time from the 

 plumage of the female into that of the male, and 1 have also 

 pointed out that this species should probably stand under 

 Raffles' name rufus, and that it cannot possibly stand as Ignitus, 

 Lath., under which name Mr. Elliot figures it. 



In reply to these remarks of mine my friend Mr. Elliot says, 

 Ibis, 1878, 124 :— 



" Mr. Hume's next criticism (p. 138) is, that as I state the 

 male of the bird I call Euplocamas Ignitus, when immature, has 

 the " flanks streaked with chestnut, and the central tail feathers 



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