DESERT TRUMPETER BUELFIXCH. 
89 
first three slightly, the rest more broadly,) 'with cream}^ 
white; in the secondaries the outer border is the 
broadest, and the cream-colour is more deeply tinged 
with rosy pink; the tail is emarginate, and the 
feathers present the same deep brown coloxir, broadly 
edged with cream-colour and rosy red, as the wing 
feathers, so that when the wings are closed, they form, 
with the tail, a pleasing striped appearance. All the under 
parts (more or less,) the under tail coverts, feathers round 
the beak and rump are rosy red, mingled on the crop 
and abdomen with grey. 
Dr. BoUe says that when old, the males have the 
scapularies speckled with red, and that this colour is 
much deeper on the back. In autumn the male is less 
beautiful,- — the red is less remarkable, and the ashy 
grey above, changes into a dull grey brown, on which 
account, after moulting for the first time, they have a 
strongly marbled appearance. In this stage a reddish 
shade on the back is above all perceptible. The beak 
is a rosy coral colour, which Dr. Bolle says gives it in 
the distance the appearance ^of an exotic bird. Tarsi 
and feet rose; iris brownish black. 
The female is above brownish grey, hut that colour is 
lost in the clearer tints below, which from the throat 
downwards, become exclusively 'whitish. The upper 
part of the wings reddish grey. On the throat and 
immediately under the beak clear rose; tail rosy red; 
scapularies edged with rosy red. The greater wing 
coverts and tail feathers like the male, only smaller, and 
the rose less marked; under tail coverts pale reddish 
grey; feet paler rose than the male. No hands across 
the wings of either sex. 
The plumage of the young differs somewhat from 
that of the adult. IITien it leaves the nest it is clear 
