THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 1111 



Wing 13-2" to 13-75"; bill, from feathers above nostril on 

 <;ulmen, 1-2" to 1-25", from gape 2-12" to 2-44" ; tarsus about 

 •5" or a little over; tail 6-5" to 7-25". 



Tarsus 5-6" (Blanford). 



Tarsus 6-12" to 6-75" (Hume). 



The feathers of the crest are long and somewhat lanceolate and 

 measure from 3" to 4" or even more. The feathers of the hind 

 neck average about 2" and below the neck they increase gradually 

 in length from the tiny feathers of the chin to feathers on the 

 fore neck of over three inches and to the final tuft of feathers 

 on the breast which may be as long as six inches in old, fully 

 plumaged birds. 



In some birds which are more than usually richlj' coloured there 

 is often a rufescent shade in the buff colour on the upper parts. 



Adult fmncde mid male in first ])lumage. — Crown, dark brown, 

 sometimes almost black, with a certain amount of buff speckling 

 and buff edges to the posterior feathers ; a broad coronal streak of 

 mottled brown and buff; supercilia and lores buff, generally 

 immaculate but the former sometimes with a few dark specks ; 

 feathers of short crest buff speckled with black or brown and with 

 dark centres and shafts. Chin, upper throat and centre of lower 

 throat buff or sand colour unspotted, remainder of neck sandy buff' 

 freckled and narrowly barred with black or brown, the bars not 

 being definite enough to make the neck look more than freckled. 

 Down each side of the neck the feathers are centred with dark 

 streaks, making two fairly definite lines which coalesce on the 

 neck adjoining the breast, the feathers of this part seem often to 

 be a richer shade of buff than elsewhere on the plumage. The 

 back, scapulars and inner secondaries are black, mottled and 

 freckled with buff except in the centre of each feather and with 

 broad sub-edges of buff in a V. shape. On the secondaries and 

 outer scapulars the markings are bolder and the black assumes 

 the shape of fairly definite bars. Wing coverts pale buff with a 

 rufous tint here and there and with sparse markings in the form 

 of broken bars of black or deep brown, not numerous enough or 

 regular enough to break the general contrast of these pale buff' 

 feathers with the plumage of the back. Remainder of wing quills 



