222 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIV. 



Description — Adult Male. — No crest, though the feathers of the 

 crown are somewhat disintegrated and erectile. Upper portion of 

 head, nape and neck, black or blackish brown, each feather with a 

 narrow crescentic bar of dull white near the tip and another near 

 the base, making the head appear as a whole a dull grey ; round 

 the eyes and posterior lores bare, anterior lores covered sparsely with 

 black tipped white feathers ; sides of head like the crown, but with 

 more white, this latter increasing in extent towards the chin and 

 throat which are white. Whole upper plumage brown, minutely 

 speckled with pale, dull, bujEf, the spots forming indefinite bars near 

 the tips of the feathers, especially on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts. Feathers of the mantle, scapulars and inner secondaries 

 with metallic purple-blue ocelli with three narrow rings of black, 

 buff, and brown surrounding them. In each case the ocellus forms 

 the tip of the feathers. Primaries, outer secondaries and the outer- 

 most greater coverts hair-brown, the primaries faintly and the other 

 feathers profusely speckled with buff. 



Rectrices like the back, each feather with a pair of ocelli like 

 those on the mantle but much larger, and green instead of purple - 

 blue, though those on the shorter tail feathers are somewhat more 

 blue than the others. 



Lower plumage like the upper, but with the buff markings more 

 numerous and better defined in bars and terminal edgings. 



Colours of soft parts. — " Legs black, iris brown " (Vassal). Bill 

 appears to be a rather light horny with tip and culmen darker. 



Meas^lrements.— Wing 7-9" (200-6 mm.) to 8-25" (209-5 mm.); 

 tail 9" (228-6mm.) to 12-5" (317-5 mm.); bill at front about -7" 

 (17-7 mm.) and from gape about 1-2" (53-5 mm.) ; tarsus aboiit 

 2-5" (63-4 mm.). 



Adult Female. Like the male but with the pale freckling finer 

 and less defined in bars. The ocelli are smaller and a still deeper 

 purple in colour with more black in proportion and shaped rather as 

 diamonds than circular. Feathers of the mantle white shafted and 

 some of those of the lower plumage also pale shafted. 



Colours of the soft parts. — As in the male. 



Measurements. — Wing 7-3" (185-4mm.)to 7-8" (198-1 mm.);tail 

 about 9-5" (241-3 mm.); bill at front about -65" (16 4 mm.) and 

 from the gape about 1-1" (27-9 mm.) ; tarsus 2" (50-8 mm.). 



Young Males are like the females but the ocelli on the mantle 

 and tail feathers are intermediate between those on the female and 

 those on the male. 



Of the few specimens I have been able to examine of this species, 

 three adult males have two spurs on either leg and one has three on 

 one leg and two on the other. The females have no spurs and the 

 young males have rione or only one very small blunt spur on one or 

 both tarsi. 



