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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



feathers very narrow and elongated, longest having distal half or 

 more black, some with extreme tips sandy-buff vermiculated black ; 

 nape feathers shorter, white with tips finely vermiculated black ; 

 hind-neck black, feathers tipped white ; lower hind-neck white, 

 feathers short, loose and downy, similar feathers adjoining mantle 

 but buff and finely vermiculated dusky ; whole of rest of upper- 

 parts sandy-buff (varying somewhat in shade) finely and closely 

 vermiculated black, mantle and scapulars with widely spaced broad 

 black bars, those on exposed portion of feathers being vermiculated 

 with sandy-buff and thus not clearly defined, back and rump without 



bars, upper tail-coverts with bars 

 on outer webs better defined and 

 slate-coloured ; lores, round eyes 

 and ear - coverts buffish - white, 

 feathers with black, hair -like 

 projecting shafts ; down centre 

 of sides of neck a broad black 

 band of elongated feathers, those 

 of basal part narrow, of very 

 loose structure and very long 

 ( 1 20-1 50 mm . ) forming long black- 

 and-white tufts, upper feathers 

 being black with white centres and 

 lower feathers being white ; chin 

 white tinged cream or ash-grey ; 

 throat ash-grey, tips of feathers 

 lightly vermiculated buff and 

 black ; feathers at base of throat 

 narrow and elongated (forming 

 gular tuft) upper ones pale 

 blue -grey with slight vermicula- 

 tions at tips of some, under 

 feathers white ; rest of under- 

 pays white, with some black spots down centre of breast and sides 

 of upper-breast buff vermiculated black, lower flanks narrowly 

 barred black ; under tail-coverts same and sides tinged buff and 

 vermiculated black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; tail- 

 feathers cinnamon-buff vermiculated black (except at base) tipped 

 white and broadly barred slate, central feathers with tips like upper- 

 parts ; primaries : outer five white with about distal third black, 

 inner ones mostly black with narrow white tips and white bases ; 

 secondaries same but basal part buff vermiculated dusky-black, 

 innermost as scapulars ; primary-coverts as secondaries but 

 usually less vermiculated at base ; greater coverts and outermost 

 median pale grey to sandy-buff finely vermiculated black, tipped 

 white and with black subterminal band ; rest of median, innermost 

 greater and all lesser coverts as upper-parts. Downy bases of 

 feathers and down pink. This plumage is acquired by complete 

 moult Oct. -Dec. and probably chiefly in Aug. and Sept. Summer. — 



Macqueen s Bustard (Chlamydotisu. macqueenii). 

 Adult, niale. 



