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over the crown, occiput, back, and sides of the neck ; an occi- 

 pital crest of numerous linear greyish white feathers, the longest 

 of which are sometimes fully nine inches in length. The whole 

 space in front of the eye and a broad band above and behind 

 the eye, and again below the eye to the commissure, bare ; ear- 

 coverts and sides of the occiput light ashy brown, sometimes 

 faintly rufescent ; chin, upper part of throat, feathers on either 

 side of the base of the lower mandible white ; the rest of the 

 throat and foreneck mingled ashy brown and slaty, with here 

 and there, a somewhat ruddy brown tinge ; feathers of the base 

 and sides, and front of the neck, elongated, some of them fully 

 seven inches in length, linear lanceolate and the visible terminal 

 portions pearl grey ; rest of entire lower surface ash grey. The 

 wing- lining, axillaries, and under surface of the wing, a very 

 pure blue slate color. 



A young male measured : — 



Length, 49'5 ; expanse, 67'0; tail from vent, 6"0 ; wing, 

 17"25 ; tarsus, 6*5 ; bare portion of tibia, 3'82 ; bill from gapej 

 8'0 ; from margin of feathers, 6*1 ; weight, 51bs. 



The front of the tarsus was dark horny brown ; the bare por- 

 tion of tibia and back of tarsus and soles pale dirty green ; 

 irides bright yellow ; facial skin pale dirty green ; upper man- 

 dible horny black ; lower mandible whitish horny, yellowish to- 

 wards tip. 



In this bird the elongated scapular and neck hackles are 

 wanting ; the whole of the coverts, scapulars, and feathers of 

 the interscapulary region are margined, and more or less tipped 

 with somewhat brownish rufous ; the crest feathers are much 

 shorter, and ashy like the crown ; more of the throat is white ; 

 the whole neck all round mingled ashy brown, and pale rufes- 

 cent, all the feathers towards the base of the neck paler shafted ; 

 the lower parts are brownish ashy, the feathers more or less 

 margined and tipped with rufescent, and with pale or whitish 

 central stripes, narrower on the upper breast and broader on the 

 abdomen, and narrowest on the tibise, which are altogether 

 darker and contrast with the paler coloring of the abdomen. 

 The lower tail-coverts by the way have no rufous about them, 

 they are pale grey, centred whitish and tinged at the margins 

 with sordid fulvous. 



I am not sure whether the Indian species should stand as 

 insignis, Hodgson, or fusca of Blyth. The former name is 

 generally quoted from p. 86 of Gray's Zoological Miscellany, 

 which was published in 1844. Blyth's name was published in 

 the same year, whether before or after I cannot say, in the An. 

 and M. of N. H., p. 176. But Hodgson in the Zool. Miscl. 

 gave no description, but I have an idea that before this he did 

 publish some description in the As. Res. or the Calcutta Journal 



