278 FEATHERED GAME 
is colored on the head and upper neck a 
rich, metallic green, lustrous and glossy. A 
sharply defined ring of white runs around 
the neck at the base of this area, and be- 
ginning under this the lower neck and up- 
per breast are a rich, deep chestnut with a 
purplish sheen, fading into the silver gray of 
the lower breast and under parts of the body, 
this gray color finely waved with faint darker 
lines. Lower part of the back, rump, tail cov- 
erts and crissum black. Tail feathers whitish, 
central ones growing more dusky, and with two 
black, up-curling feathers at the base of the 
tail. Speculum (the bright patch in the wing 
formed by the ends of some of the secondaries) 
purplish, changing color with each different 
view point, now purplish, now violet, now 
green, and bordered about by a margin of black 
feathers, these in turn being defined by a bar 
of white showing at the ends of the coverts and 
at the outer edge of the speculum. Iris brown; 
bill greenish yellow; feet and legs orange red 
with webs a trifle darker and duller in tone. 
The female is clad in a mixed and mottled dress 
of black, dusky brown and tawny yellow, this! 
last the body color, lighter in shade on the head, 
