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outer secondaries are uniformly dark, save for a narrow, mottled shaft-streak and an 

 outer margin of grey. The primaries have a whitish tip and a pale buff outer web. 



The tail-feathers are like macrolopha, but with much more black lining and mottling 

 on the central rectrices and upper coverts. The lateral feathers are rich rufous, especially 

 on the outer web, with a very broad, subterminal black band and a generous white tip. 

 The under tail-coverts are black and rufous, with very wide white tips. 



The male type, which was loaned to me by the Hungarian National Museum, 

 measures: bill from nostril, 15 mm.; wing, 233; tail, 223; tarsus, 68; middle toe and 

 claw, 53. The left spur is 14 mm. in length, while the right is short. 



Adult Female. — Like xanthospila, except for much more rufous tinge on the 

 mantle and breast, and the rufous lateral rectrices, which are like those of the male. 

 Bill from nostril, 15 mm. ; wing, 218; tail, 168; tarsus, 64; middle toe and claw, 58. 



SYNONYMY 



Pucrasia meyeri Madarasz, Ibis 1886, p. 145; Oustalet, Ann. de Sci. Nat, XIL 1891, p. 316; Grant, Cat. 

 Game-birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 315; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, p. 285; Sharpe, Hand-list 

 Birds, I. 1899, P- 3^; Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds,, pt. II. 1903, p. 671 ; Finn, Game-birds India and Asia, 191 1, 

 p. 66; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXV. 1918, p. 540. 



Pucrasia darwinii Oustalet (nee Swinhoe), Le Naturaliste, 1886, p. 276. 



Pucrasia xanthospila meyeri Beebe, Zoologica, I., No. 1$, 1914, p. 278. 



