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of a crescentic shape pnsses along the sides of the head and inferiorly changes 

 into black, between the buff colour anteriorly and white band posteriorly ; back 

 and scapulars grey, somewhat tinged with brown, minutely vermiculated with 

 black ; the inner scapulars elongated, lanceolate, on the outer web black, edged 

 with cinnamon, silky buff, edged with brown on the inner web ; lower back and 

 rump greyish-browu ; the upper tail-coverts brown, edged with rufous ; lower 

 neck and upper breast vinous, marked with small oval black spots ; on the sides 

 of the bi'east, just before the bend of the wing, a crescentic white band ; lower 

 breast and belly white ; flanks grey, minutely vermiculated with black ; under 

 tail-coverts black, but marked with bay on the sides, the longer ones whitish-bufC 

 at the tip, with slight vermiculation ; on the lower flanks, just at the base of the 

 tail a band of silky white, formed by the tip of the feathers ; wings pale greyish- 

 brown ; the last row of the upper wing-coverts tipped with cinnamon, forming a 

 band which borders anteriorly the wing-speculum ; the latter is glossy green 

 anteriorly, with a subapical velvety black band, and bordered by a white band at 

 the tip of the secondaries ; the longer tertiaries marked with velvety black ou 

 the outer web ; quills pale brown ; under wing-coverts brown-grey, the greater 

 ones pale grey, the centre ones and the axillaries whitish, minutely spotted with 

 brown-grey : bill dark bluish-brown ; feet light greyish-blue, darker on the web ; 

 irides chestnut-brown. Total length 18 inches, wing 8'5, tail 4-2, culraen 1*5, 

 tarsus 1." {Salvadori.) 



" Length 15-8 inches, wing 8-15, tail 3*9, tarsus 1*3, bill at front 1*5, from 

 gape 1-92." (Hume.) 



"The tarsus .... in a fine male from China is 1'4 inches." (Hume.) 



Again, Temminck and Schlegel give the dimensions of the tarsus as 

 1-28 inches. 



Of the fonr specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, the measurements of 

 the tarsus of the males are 1*2 to 1'3 inches; the measurements were kindly 

 supplied to me by Mr. F. Finn. 



Female. — " Upper parts, wings, and tail brown, with paler edges to the 

 feathers, crown darkest ; speculum as in the male, but the rufous and bronze-green 

 bands duller ; a buff spot on each side of the head in front of the lores, another 

 under each eye ; sides of the head and neck buff or pale rufous speckled with 

 brown ; lower parts white, except lower fore-neck and upper breast, which are 

 light rufous-brown A\"ith dark spots. 



" Length lo'O inches, culmen l'4o, wing 7*8, tail 3*5, tarsus 0-9." 

 ( Dresser.) 



" The only female in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a tarsus measuring 

 1"3 inches." (Hume.) 



" The male assumes, after breeding, a jjlumage very similar to that of the 

 ftMuale, from which he is only to be distinguished by the darker brownish-red 

 tint of the upper breast, and the comparatively uniform colour of the upper back, 

 the feathers of which, in the female, are darker and very conspicuously bordered 

 with reddish buff." (Hume.) 



.Young. — " The young in down are easily I'ecognised by the spot at the root 

 of the bill and the stripe by the eye, which agree exactly with those of the female, 

 but are yellowish instead of white." (Middemlorff.) 



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