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flanks duller, deeper green fading to dull brownish black on the 

 centre of the abdomen, vent and undertail coverts. 



Wing coverts next the scapulars bronze green with deep blue 

 centres and dark margins ; other coverts deep metallic blue-green, 

 changing to copper bronze on the coverts of the inner secondaries ; 

 bastard wing greater coverts and primaries light chestnut, with 

 dark brown shafts and tips ; secondaries dark brown with metallic 

 green kistre on the visible portions. Tail dark brown with paler 

 mottiings next to the shaft. Tail coverts which form the train 

 similar to those of the Common Peacock. 



Colour B of Soft Parts. — Naked skin round the eye bluish green, 

 cheeks yellow to pale orange ; bill dark horny brown, darkest at 

 the tip and paler at base of lower mandible ; legs and feet dark 

 grey brown or horny brown, claws blackish ; iris dark brown or 

 deep hazel brown. 



" The facial skin is of two colours, smalt blue and chrome yellow, 

 " The blue runs from a point in front of and below the nostrils, where 

 it is palest, to the gape and thence in a curved line past, and 0'15 

 in front of the orifice of the ear to within 0'35 of the top of the head, 

 from thence curving round over the eye, and about 0"2 above it, 

 down to the point below the nostrils already referred to ; the blue is 

 brightest just behind the eye. 



" The chrome yellow extends as a broad irregular band over the post- 

 erior portion of the face, immediately behind the blue. It is widest 

 on the cheeks, where it may be 0'8 wide and narrowest at the oral 

 orifice, which it encloses, where it may be 0'45 wide. It begins at 

 the gape and goes as high up as the blue." — (Hume.) 



Measurements. — "Length to end of true tail, 40'0 to 48'0 ; train 



projects beyond of tail 24-0 to 44*0 ; expanse 50'5 to 60-0 ; wing 16-75 



to 19*75 ; tail from vent 15'5 to 17'5; tarsus 5'5 to 6"3 ; bill from 



gape 1-95 to 2-06 ; weight 8-5 lbs. to 11 lbs."— (Hume.) 



Hume says that the finest bird of which he has any record was 



no less than 90" from the tip of its bill to the end of its train. 



Adult Female. — Has no train and differs from the male in the 

 following respects. The whole back and rump is brownish black, 

 more or less barred and marked with biiff, the feathers next the 

 scapulars with faint metallic green edges. The feathers of the 

 breast have the bronze and black borders more broken up in ap- 

 pearance. The primaries, bastard wing, and greater coverts are 

 more or less mottled on the outer webs. The upper tail coverts are 

 no longer than the tail and are much mixed with brown and light 

 buff. Tail brown with narrow bars and tip of paler brown. 



Measurements. — The female is but little smaller than the male, 

 the wings of those in the British Museum being about 17" 

 (431-8 mm.). 



Young Male. — Eesembles the adult female, but the feathers of 

 the lower back are greenish bronze, and the upper tail coverts are 

 golden green tipped with bronze. They fall short of the tip of the 

 tail by about 6". 



