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rump and iipper tail-coverts, together with scapulars, inner second- 

 aries and lesser wing- coverts deep buff, finely vermiculated with 

 black ; the median wing-coverts are dark greyish or brownish black 

 generally tipped with white, greater coverts deep grey, edged black 

 and tipped white ; primaries dark brown becoming more grey on 

 the innermost ; outer secondaries dark grey, these and the prima- 

 ries all tipped with white and the inner ones marked with a white 

 band on the inner web. Underwing coverts white ; flanks dark 

 grey ; tail like the back but more grey and with a broad terminal 

 band of blackish brown, with the outermost one or two pairs of 

 rectrices tipped white. A broad black band across the breast 

 often continuing right ro^md to the hind neck where it divides the 

 white of the neck from the buff of the back. Undertail coverts 

 and feathers round vent blackish brown, marked with white and 

 with Avhite tips ; thighs generally much marked with black and 

 sometimes entirely black ; rest of underparts white. 



" The legs and toes are generally yellowish creamy, a little 

 dingy on the toes ; but I have noticed specimens in which the legs 

 had more of a light fleshy tinge and others in which the pale 

 yellow had a gi'ey or plumbeous tinge ; the irides vary from pale 

 to light yellow ; the bill is greyish brown to greyish white, dusky 

 at dp and near forehead, and often a little yellowish below." 

 (Hume.) 



'•' Length 45 to 50 inches ; expanse 86 to 96 ; wings 24-6 to 29 ; 

 tarsi 7-5 to 8-37 ; bill to gape 4-0 to 4-75 ; weight 17 to 22 lbs." 

 .(Hume). 



The middle toe averages about 2-95" in length. 



Jerdon gives the weight as up to 28 lbs., but this weight is un- 

 usual. The heaviest I have received any record of is one shot b}^ 

 Major A. B. Burton of 26^ lbs. and Col. L. L. Fenton gives the 

 avei-age weight of cocks as 21 lbs. 



Blanford in "Avifauna of British India" gives the weights of 

 hens as 10 lbs. and of cocks as 25 lbs. to 35 lbs. and says that 

 birds of 40 lbs. have been recorded. I cannot trace these records 

 and there may possibly be some mistakes about them. 



The crest feathers are about 2" in length. 



