SOS DOUBLE-GIRDED PTEROCLES. 



pure white : the feathers on the top of the head 

 and the occiput are of a reddish-yellow, with a 

 dusky spot in their middle : the cheeks, the neck, 

 the breast, the lesser coverts, and top of the wing, 

 are of an ashy-yellow : the back, the greater and 

 lesser coverts, and the secondary wing-feathers, 

 are of an ashy-brown ; each feather being striped 

 and spotted with red, and all having a triangular 

 white spot at their tips : the rump, the tail, and its 

 coverts, are transversely striped with brown and 

 reddish-yellow ; the tail-feathers being tipped with 

 the latter colour : the quills are black, with brown 

 shafts : the upper part of the breast is adorned 

 with two belts, reaching upwards to the sides of 

 the back ; the upper one is white, and the lower 

 black : the belly, the sides, the thighs, and the 

 abdomen, are dirty -white, varied with slight brown 

 bars : the feathers on the fore-part of the tarsi are 

 dirty-white ; the hinder part of the tarsi, the toes, 

 the claws, and the beak, are yellow. 



The female has not the bands on the breast, nor 

 the peculiar marks on the head of the male : the 

 whole of the upper part of the head is red-yellow, 

 with dusky longitudinal spots ; the cheeks and the 

 throat with minute brown points: the neck and the 

 breast marked with broad transverse bands of brown 

 and yellowish ; the belly, the thighs, and the ab- 

 domen, as in the male : the feathers of the back, 

 and the whole of those of the wings, barred with 

 brown and red, and tipped with a stripe of white: 

 the quills are dusky-brown, slightly fringed at their 

 tip with white : the beak and the claws are brown* 

 The young males resemble the female. 



