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and throat black ; roundish white patch on the cheeks near the base of 
the upper mandible ; lower neck, breast, and underparts white ; on 
the sides of the vent the feathers have the bases slatey-grey, shewing 
through ; feathers of the flanks edged above with black, the longer ones 
on both webs ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts black ; inner scapulars 
black, the outer ones white, longer scapulars with a white band along the 
middle; wings black, witha large white patch covering the central 
wing coverts and the outer secondaries ; the inner secondaries black ; 
under wing coverts greyish-black ; tail blackish-grey, bill bluish-black ; 
irides golden-yellow ; feet orange-yellow, the webs dusky. Total length 
about 18 inches, wing 8°9, tail 4, culmen 1:4, tarsus 1°45". (Salvadori). 
‘ Bill black in the male. . . . The eyes are yellow and the feet 
yellow with black webs.” (F. Finn.) 
‘¢ The irides are bright yellow in the females and young males, reddish 
or orange-yellow in old males, white or very pale yellow in the quite 
young birds. The naked edges of the eyelids reddish-dusky ; the legs 
and feet vary from pale yellow in the young to intense orange in the 
old ; the colour is always bright and pure ; the webs (including that of 
the hind toe), nails, and a spot on each of the toe joints, black or dusky ; 
the bill of the old male is bluish or greenish-black, rather duskier and 
duller coloured in the old females and young, and occasionally in these 
latter, often in the former, and very rarely in the old males, witha 
larger or smaller yellowish-red or orange spot or bar near the tip of 
the upper mandible, which in some forms a terminal band at the tips 
of both mandibles, never, however, including the nail, which always 
remains black or dusky.” (Hume). 
Female.—* Head and upper neck hair-brown ; a dull white collar 
round the lower neck; upper parts blackish ; manile, scapulars and 
upper wing coverts with pale greyish edges; breast greyish with the 
edges of the feathers whitish, lower parts white ; sides and flanks dull 
corey ; the feathers edged with white ; median wing coverts brown 
tipped with whitish, the greater ones white tipped with brown ; outer 
secondaries white ; the white on the wing is defined by the brown band 
at the tip of the greater coverts ; quills dusky brown ; tail dull greyish ; 
bill brownish-black, in some specimens the tip, except the nail, is 
yellow; irides and legs and toes as in the male, Total length 17 
inches ; wing 7'7 ; culmen 1°35.” (Salvadori). 
