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outermost lower coverts, and the inner secondaries with ocelli at 

 their tips of violet green blue, each ocellus surrounded with a 

 narrow brownish black band succeeded by a second broader one of 

 white. Similar ocelli occur on the rectrices in pairs about one inch 

 or rather more from the tip of each feather. These ocelli are much 

 larger than those on the mantle, are oval in shape and far more 

 green, onlj showing the violent tint under exceptional lights ; the 

 outer ring, also, is pale brown, not white. 



Below, the chin and throat are white, the white sometimes ex- 

 tending to the foreneck (as in the tj^-pe of Gates' helence); remainder 

 of lower plumage like the back, but with the bars more definite on 

 the breast, flanks and upper abdomen. On the under aspect of the 

 tail, the ocelli show through as blackish blots. 



Colours of soft parts. — Irides white or pale pearl grey, facial skin 

 yellowish flesh colour, sometimes almost a reddish flesh colour; legs 

 and feet dark slaty or greenish plumbeou.s to dusky black, the claws 

 black ; bill black at the tip and over most of the culmen, base 

 creamy flesh colour, extending over all but the tip of the lower 

 mandible. 



Measurements. — Length about 22" to 26" (559 to 760 mm.); 

 wing8"to 9" (203 to 228 mm.); average about 8-5" (216 mm.); 

 tail to end of two central rectrices 12" to 16" (304 to 402 mm.); 

 tarsus about 3" (76-2 mm.); bill at front rather under -75" (18-9 

 mm.); and from gape about 1*3" (33 mm.). 



"Weight 1-4 to 2 lbs." Average weight of full grown cock, 

 about 1*6 lbs. 



Very Old Females are practically indistinguishable from the 

 younger, duller coloured males, though they are smaller and have 

 comparatively shorter tails. 



Yoimger Females have the ocelli on the upper parts less brilliant, 

 whilst the surrounding circles of black and white are replaced by 

 broken bars of black and white above and below them. The ocelli 

 on the shorter tail feathers are sometimes absent, but the white 

 spots on the rump and upper tail coverts are bolder, and some of the 

 shafts of the feathers of these parts are also white. The white on 

 the throat generally extends further on to the foreneck than it does 

 in the male. The crest is more developed and more feathery in the 

 female than it is in the male. 



Colours of the soft ])arts. — Irides grey and in quite young birds a 

 grey-brown or deep grey. Facial skin duller flesh colour than in 

 the male. The legs and feet are also paler, generally a dull brown- 

 ish plumbeous, never black. 



Measurements. — The female is considerably smaller than the male. 

 The wing varies from 7" to 8" ( 177 to 203 mm.), the latter very 

 exceptional and the tail seldom exceeds 10" (254 mm.) and is 

 usually less than this. 



