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inches long on crown and occiput compressed laterally, wedge 

 shaped ; the upper edge of the wedge in a Hue from the point 

 of the bill to the point of the tail ; the forehead and a narrow 

 band above the eye, the lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat 

 and neck all round, velvet black ; a broad greyish white band 

 across the crown between the eyes ; the whole of the rest of 

 the crown and occiput, including the whole of the crest, except 

 the anterior basal portions, which form the grey white band 

 already referred to, rich glossy maroon ; breast, foreneck, abdo- 

 men, sides and flanks, black or blackish, or deep brown, fringed 

 at the tips and glossed with deep metallic blue, sometimes 

 slightly greenish in some lights ; vent, tibial plumes, and lower 

 tail-coverts blackish brown or black ; wing-lining brown, but 

 larger lower coverts, and under surface of quills, pale glossy 

 grey brown ; the back, rump and upper tail-coverts glossy 

 green, but becoming deep blue in many lights ; wings a warm 

 somewhat rufescent brown ; outer webs of the primaries, except 

 the first, very pale chestnut or rufous buff, spotted with brown, 

 and many of the coverts more or less tipped, or freckled at the 

 tips, with this same color ; the coverts next the body and the 

 longer scapulars deep brown, glossed with deep blue, in some 

 lights with a certain subdued reddish or purplish tinge ; the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts are greenest and most constantly 

 green ; the tail is black, more or less fringed and shaded on 

 the margins with glossy blue. 



The female has no crest, but has the same tuft of long black 

 frontal hairs that the male has. 



The whole head and upper neck all round deep slaty grey ; 

 the entire body above and below grass green, duller below and 

 becoming very much mingled with dusky slaty on the middle 

 of the abdomen, vent, flanks, and tibial plumes, which latter 

 are almost entirely of this color, with, however, a reddish tinge 

 at the back just above the joint ; all the coverts, and the outer 

 and longer scapulars are chestnut, almost maroon next to the 

 back, paler on the greater coverts, which are a little freckled 

 with brown towards the tips ; outer webs of the secondaries 

 rather deeper colored again, and very closely freckled with 

 dusky brown ; outer webs of the primaries paler, more of a 

 rufous buff, more thinly speckled with dusky brown ; inner webs 

 of the quills hair brown ; tail feathers dusky, fringed and suffused 

 dull greenish, or greenish blue towards the margins and tips. 



831 quat.— Caloperdix oculea, Tern. (2). 



Banhasoon. 



Confined to the forests of the southernmost portions of the 

 province and rare there. 



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