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rrOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES. 
pure white : the feathers on the top of the heaci 
and the occiput are of a reddish-yellow, with a 
dusky spot in their middle : the cheeks, the neck, 
the breast, the lesser coverts^ and top of the wing, 
are of an ashy-yellow : the back, the greater and 
lesser coverts, and the secondary wing-feathers, 
are of an ashy-brown j each feather being striped 
and spotted with red, and all having a triangular 
white spot at their tips : the rump, the tail, and it& 
coverts, are transversely striped with brown and 
reddish-yellow ; the tail-feathers being tipped with 
the latter colour : the quills are black, with brown 
shafts : the upper part of the breast is adorned 
with two belts, reaching upwards to the sides of 
the back ; the upper one is white, and the lower 
black ; the belly, the sides, the thighs, and the 
abdomen, are dirty-white, varied with slight brown 
bars : the feathers on the fore-part of the tarsi are 
dirty-white ; the hinder part of the tarsi, the toes, 
the claws, and the beak, are yellow. 
The female has not the bands on the breast, nor 
the peculiar marks on the head of the male : the 
whole of the upper part of the head is red-yellow, 
with dusky longitudinal spots ; the cheeks and the 
throat with minute brown points: the neck and the 
breast marked with broad transverse bands of brown 
and yellowish : the belly, the thighs, and the ab- 
domen, as in the male : the feathers of the back, 
and the whole of those of the wings, barred with 
brown and red, and tipped with a stripe of white: 
the quills are dusky-brown, slightly fringed at their 
tip with white : the beak and the claws are brown. 
The young males resemble the female. 
