BIP.DS OF UPPER PEGU. . 167 



Female: Length, 23 to 24; expanse, 24- 75 to 26; tail, from 

 vent, 9-6 to 10-0; wing, 9 to 9*5; tarsus, 325 to 3*4; bill, from 

 gape, 1*5 j weight, 2 to 2" 5 lbs. 



The legs and feet were generally pinkish fleshy or pinkish 

 brown; sometimes a sort of bluish horny. 



In the male the spurs are dark at the base, whitish horny at 

 tip. In the males, the bills are pale bluish or greenish horny, 

 darkest at base. In the female, pale horny brown. The irides 

 seem to vary a great deal ; some were brown of different shades 

 usually more or less tinged with red ; others are noted as very 

 pale pink or even fleshy white ; in fact, all the soft parts in 

 this species seem to vary very greatly, doubtless according to 

 age, season, and sex. In both sexes the facial skin is blood red. 



The male has the forehead, crown, and occiput, dull black. The 

 occipital feathers, greatly elongated, so as to form a crest nearly 

 2*5 inches long; the feathers, narrow. Webs, greatly disunited, 

 and with a bluish-green gloss. The sides and back of the neck, 

 the back, scapulars, upper tail coverts, the whole of the wings, 

 and nearly the whole of the tail, black, finely vermicillated, 

 with zig-zag wavy white lines — these lines much coarser, and 

 wider apart on the secondaries and on the lateral tail feathers. 

 The central tail feathers, white ; only the basal two-thirds of the 

 outer webs, finely vermicillated with black ; the next tail feathers 

 on either side similar, but more broadly vermicillated with black 

 everywhere, except just at the tips and on the inner margins of 

 the inner webs towards the tips. The inner webs of all the quills, 

 duller and browner, as are also the whitish vermicillations ; the 

 outer webs of the primaries also duller and browner, and the 

 white vermicillations greyer, less well-defined, and becoming 

 almost confluent. Chin, throat, and front of the neck, black. 

 Breast, abdomen, vent, lower tail coverts, and tibial plumes, black, 

 with more or less of a blue lustre, especially on the two first, and 

 all the feathers, both of the breast and abdomen, with conspicuous, 

 pure white, central, shaft stripes, varying however a good deal in 

 breadth in different individuals. The sides and flanks, brown; the 

 feathers, tipped blackish, and more or less powdered or finely 

 freckled with white. In some specimens the feathers on the sides 

 of the breast have the white stripe more or less powdered with 

 black, and the whole outer webs white, vermicillated with black, 

 or vice versa. 



The female has the forehead, crown, occiput, and crest, winch 

 is shorter than in the male and with the webs less disunited, a 

 moderately dark, slightly rufescent, olivaceous brown. The back 

 of the neck, back, scapulars, rump, and all but the longer upper 

 tail coverts, the whole wings, except the primaries and the winglet, 

 a pale (scarcely rufescent) olive brown, darkest on the secondaries, 

 tertiaries, and lower back, very uniform if looked at from a little 



