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hair-brown, having the coverts and scapulars barred 
and margined with reddish-white. Tail with the outer 
feathers of a uniform pale hair-brown, and the middle 
ones with darker bars. 
Another specimen in my possession has the ruff and ear- 
tufts black, glossed with purple and green, and varied 
with yellowish-brown. The sides of the breast and 
flanks are also black, glossed with purple. The back 
darker, and more varied in colour than in Fig. 1.—A 
third has the ruff and breast entirely black, glossed with 
steel-blue; with the back still darker than in the last 
described specimen. But as the variety of colour is end- 
less in different individuals, it is unnecessary to particu- 
larize more. 
Fig. 2. is the female bird. 
In size much less than the male, and always destitute of Female. 
the ruff. In summer, the upper parts of the body, the 
neck, and breast, are varied, with black glossed with 
steel-blue, and cinereous or brownish-grey. In autumn, 
or the winter plumage, the cinereous brown prevails 
without any mixture of black feathers. Belly and ab- 
domen white. Legs pale yellow, sometimes tinged with 
flesh-red.—The young of the year have the neck and 
breast deeply tinged with yellowish-brown. 
Fig. 3. represents the young male killed in autumn. Young 
In this state the cheeks and region of the eyes are of a ms 
pale reddish-white, tinged with grey. Throat white, 
tinged with reddish-brown. Sides of the neck and breast 
yellowish-orange, tinged with grey. Crown of the head 
black, the feathers being margined with reddish-brown. 
Belly and under tail-coverts greyish-white, tinged with 
buff. Back and scapulars brownish-black, glossed with 
purple, and the feathers deeply margined with pale 
orange-brown. Side coverts of the tail white. Two 
