84 FEATHERED GAME 
bright and varying shades of golden yellow or 
light chestnut. The forehead with a band of 
white running from eye to eye, black-bordered 
above and joined by a narrow thread above the 
eye with the white patch behind, this gradually 
changing into the grayish brown of the hind 
head. A black band from the base of the bill, 
passing below the eye through the ear coverts 
and fading into the brown of the nape. Throat 
white, this color carried entirely around the 
neck in a narrow collar. Below this two collars 
of black; the first completely, the second par- 
tially, encircling the body, and between these an 
incomplete band of white. Wings the same 
shade of brownish gray as on the back, with 
a crossbar of white formed by the tips of the 
greater coverts. Primaries black, with a con- 
siderable area of white on the outer webs of 
the inner one. For the rest below, pure white. 
Central tail feathers dark greenish brown, 
growing blackish toward the ends, tipped with 
tawny or white. Side tail feathers lighter, with 
several dark barrings, the outer pair nearly 
white, less distinctly barred. Bright orange on 
eyelids. Bill black; legs pale yellow. Length 
from nine to ten and spread of wings about 
