202 CERiOBNis TEMMINCKI, /. E. Gray. 



scapulars, back, rump and upper-tail coverts the same rich 

 maroon red as the lower part of the back of the neck, thickly 

 dotted with circular or oval pearly grey or greyish white 

 spots, more or less completely encircled by a narrowish black 

 band. Also by having the breast and under parts all thickly 

 set with huge, oval, pearly grey spots, occupying more than 

 half the visible terminal portions of the feathers, spots not 

 surrounded by a black line as are the much smaller ones on 

 the breast of satyra. 



The following are the dimensions taken from this Mishmi 

 skin, which is that of an adult male : — Length, about 23*0 ; wing, 

 103 ; tail from the os cocci/gis, 9"0 ; tarsus, 3"3 ; mid toe and 

 claw, 3'0; bill from gape, 1*5. 



The bird is, therefore, much about the same size as satyra. 

 The colors of the soft parts I quote from Pere David : — " Irides 

 chestnut ; bill white ; culmen and base brownish ; legs and feet 

 of a rosy flesh color, inclining to red ; horns of a bluish green, 

 indigo blue at the base ; naked skin round the eye indigo blue, 

 with the lores and eyebrows green ; gular apron* indigo blue, 

 passing to greenish blue on the edges, which are ornamented 

 with square patches of purplish red." (Gould figures these 

 patches as oval and crimson.) 



The forehead and anterior portion of the crown, (the central 

 feathers of which are elongated and form the anterior portions 

 of the crest), the sides of the head, including the ear-coverts 

 and a band round the margin of the gular skin, black; the 

 posterior portion of the crown and occiput, (the feathers of 

 which are elongated and form the central and posterior por- 

 tions of the crest) and the feathers of the upper part of the 

 neck all round immediately adjoining the black already referred 

 to, a sort of orange yellow at their bases, becoming a ferru- 

 ginous maroon towards the tips. 



The upper part of the back of the neck, interscapulary 

 region, scapulars, back, rump and all but the longest row of 

 upper tail- coverts a rather dull maroon red, the feathers with 

 numerous small circular or oval greyish white to pearly grey 

 spots, surrounded by a black band, more or less imperfect in 

 some, and showing here and there, where the feathers are slight- 

 ly disturbed, a tongue-shaped black band running up from this 

 black frame which encircles the spot, and with a zig-zaggy 

 whitish line inside the margin of this tongue. The longest 

 upper tail-coverts are grey brown, washed towards their margins 

 with rusty maroon. In the next row of tail-coverts above 

 these the greyish white spots are very much larger than in the 



* The Mishmee bird is said to have had the wattles yellow. 



