466 BOHEMIAN CHATTERER. 
slightly connected at the base; inner toe a little shorter than outer ; 
third much longer. Claws rather long, arched, much compressed, 
acute. | 
Plumage blended, very soft, silky, but with little gloss. A tuft of 
linear, oblong, erectile, decurved feathers on the head ; no bristles at 
the base of the bill. Wings rather long, broad, and pointed ; first 
quill longest, the second slightly shorter, the other primaries pretty 
equally graduated ; secondaries, excepting the inner two, broad and 
abruptly rounded, with the shaft projecting and enlarged into a flat, 
oblong, horny appendage, of the colour of red sealing-wax. Tail of 
moderate length, even, or very slightly emarginate, the middle feathers 
being shorter, by a twelfth of an inch, than the one next the lateral. 
Bill black, the base of the lower mandible whitish. Ivis hazel. 
Feet and claws black. The general colour of both surfaces is ash-grey, 
becoming more tinged anteriorly with brownish-orange, of which co- 
lour are the forehead, a patch on each side of the throat near the base 
of the bill, and the feathers under the tail. A band of deep black 
from the nasal membrane, along the lore, and over the eye, to the top 
of the head, where it is concealed by the crest; feathers at the base of 
the lower mandible, and a narrow streak below the eye white ; the up- 
per part of the throat deep black. Alula, primary coverts, and quills 
greyish-black, the secondaries more grey ; the primary coverts largely 
tipped with white, the primary quills with a bright yellow, the secon- 
dary with a white elongated spot at the end of the outer web. Tail 
light grey at the base, gradually shaded into deep black, with a broad 
terminal band of bright yellow. 
Length to end of tail 93 inches; extent of wings 161; wing from 
flexure 4;8,; tail 3; bill along the ridge 35, along the edge of lower 
mandible 7; tarsus 24; hind toe 7%, its claw 7; middle toe #4, its 
claw 34. 
Female. Plate CCCLXIII. Fig. 2. 
The Female is similar to the male, but somewhat smaller. 
The wax-like appendages vary from seven, which is the greatest 
number, to four or three, and are sometimes wanting, especially in young 
birds, of which, however, some possess them. In some specimens the 
yellow tips of the tail-feathers and primary quills are very pale yellow 
or whitish. 
