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is surmounted by a perfect hood, from which it lias obtained 

 its name ; this hood is "white, with a border of dusky black : 

 the crest on the forehead is dusky ; the head and neck are 

 dusky black, with green and purple reflections ; the back, 

 tippet, scapulars, and two bars across the breast, are deep 

 black ; the under parts are all pure white ; the flanks are 

 ferruginous, and finely pencilled with black ; the back, 

 scapulars, tail, and quills, are brownish-black ; the elongated 

 tertials are metallic black, with white shafts ; the lesser wing- 

 coverts are black ; the greater wing-coverts and secondaries 

 are white, with a cross-bar of black, owing to the greater 

 wing-coverts being tipped with that colour ; the beak, legs, 

 and feet, are transparent red-brown ; the nail black ; and 

 the webs of the feet dusky ; the eyes king^ yellow. 



