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united at the base to the first joint. In addition to the rest, the 

 figure in the Indian Zoology has a broad band of black across the 

 breast, which is said to distinguish the female sex, and in some birds 

 I have not only observed a mixture of brown on the wing coverts, 

 but the greater part of the belly and upper part of the thighs brown, 

 with some mottlings of white. 



I have seen this bird in several collections of drawings from 

 India, but in the greatest Variety in those of Sir J. Anstruther. 

 It appears from these, that the adult male acquires the full plumage 

 in three years. In this all the lesser and outer wing coverts are 

 black, beautifully margined with white; the larger coverts wholly 

 white, forming a broad, oblique bar on the wing ; quills black ; tail 

 black, tipped with white ; the pink coverts hanging over the end of 

 it, being of a greater length, and the tips of the quills are full as 

 long as the pink coverts. 



In a preserved skin of one of these, I observed the whole of the 

 wing coverts black, margined at the ends with white, appearing as 

 beautiful undulated bars, and some of the lower scapulars white on 

 the outer webs ; the tail four inches in length, the feathers rounded 

 at the ends, and the pink coverts reaching four inches beyond it. 

 The name given to this is Jungul ; at Hindustan called Kautsurunga : 

 in another the wing coverts were black, but the second series 

 margined with dull white, and the tertials dusky white ; the tail not 

 tipped with white, and the feathers much contaminated with brown 

 down the middle and the edges ; legs pale at the back, and the toes 

 dark, mixed cinereous brown : this appeared a full grown bird, but 

 not quite perfect in plumage, and the bare part of the head neither 

 runs so far back, nor is of so deep a colour, or the white any where 

 so pure. One of these, appearing to be in its first feathers, was more 

 or less brown above, deepest on the wing coverts ; and the long, 

 upper tail coverts, not even tinged with red, but brown like the rest ; 

 quills and tail black ; under parts of the body white. 



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