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brown. On the upper breast a buffy shaft stripe appears, which widens posteriorly until 
the dominant colour of the lower breast and abdomen is rufous buff, with irregular, 
black, V-shaped markings. The colour of the ventral: plumage is variable, some birds 
being much redder than those of equal age and purity of blood. Central tail-feathers, 
like the upper coverts, with indistinct black bars strongly marked with pale grey. Outer 
rectrices dark chestnut, mottled irregularly on the inner webs with black. 
Facial skin, legs and feet dull scarlet ; irides brown ; bill yellowish brown. 
Length, 505 mm.; bill from nostril, 18; wing, 240; tail, 200; tarsus, 80; middle 
toe and claw, 50; spurs, a low sharp nodule. 
First YEAR Mare.—In the post-juvenile plumage the crest is only partly white, 
being thickly barred with black. The white in the mantle is apparent only as a wider or 
narrower shaft-stripe, the remainder of the feathers being chestnut and black. The 
metallic tips of the wing and back plumage are often lacking, or present only in the tail- 
coverts, while these feathers in general and the central rectrices are chestnut, more or less 
mottled with black. There is no blue sheen on the ventral plumage. No two males are 
alike at this stage, and in a bird whose moult has been delayed by cold weather I 
have seen every adult character well developed, and only to be distinguished from 
full-plumaged males by the impurity of the whites and a slight excess of chestnut. 
Cuick IN Down.—Top of head from forehead to nape orange rufous, with a dark 
central. crown line; facial area over and around eye whitish buff, with a black line 
obliquely downward and backward from the lower posterior rim of orbit over the 
ear-coverts to the lower nape; upper body, including sides and wings, dark chocolate ; 
two creamy white lines begin faintly on the mantle and suddenly become broad and 
distinct on the lateral upper back, where they are strengthened into a spot by an 
adjoining patch on the inner wing edge. Posteriorly there is a short break, and then 
the typically pheasant-chick character follows, of two broad lines down each side of the 
lower back ; these widen interiorly at the end just above the tail, but do not join. The 
tail down is rufous, as is also an indistinct line connecting the thighs with the tail ; lower 
side, neck, outer thighs and breast also rufous, the latter being less pure in colour; chin, 
throat, and abdomen pure creamy white ; across the down of the middle coverts is a very 
broad bar of buffy white. 
Bill from nostril, 3 mm.; wing, 33; tail (down); tarsus, 22; middle toe and claw, 
22 mm. 
TweLvE Day Cuicx.—Head and neck as before; wings have increased in length, 
and the tail, though short, has appeared ; scapulars show as two lines of new feathers 
down the back, while the ventral surface shows two corresponding lateral lines extending 
from the lower neck to the thighs, all else being down. 
The oth and toth primaries are only a short way out of the sheaths, while the others 
show a very equal growth. Measurements of the roth and 8th measure respectively 12 
and 63mm. The appearance of the wing with the few first feathers is much simpler 
than that of two weeks later. The primaries are dark brown, with pale buff mottlings 
on the outer webs, This mottling is more extensive on the secondaries, showing a 
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