OTIS RUFICRISTA— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate IV. (Male.) 
Mas. 0. capite supra cseruleo-grisco ; fascia suborbitali colloque griseis, pallide brunneo sparsis; stria 
superciliari sordide alba, nigro variegata usque ad nucham porrecta ; crista castanea ; mento, regionc 
parotica, maculaquc ante alas albis, illo fascia longitudinali nigral; dorso isabellino lineis nigris 
undatis, variegatis ; scapularibus, interscapularibus, humcrisquc prseterea maculis lanceolatis nigris 
notatis flavo-albo marginatis ; alarum tectricibus secundariis apicibus albis, tectricibus primaribus, 
remiigbusque nigro-brunneis, albo maculatis ; pectore ventreque nigris ; oculis rubro-brunneis ; 
pedibus albo-flavis ; mandibula supcriore unguibusque viridi-nigris, mandibula inferiore ad basin 
subflava ad apicem livida. 
Otis Ruficbista, Rep. of Exped. App. page 56, June 1836. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head intermediate between bluish and 
blackish grey ; a stripe below each eye, and the neck pearl-grey, the latter 
closely freckled with wood-brown, except at the lower part of the throat, where 
the colour is pure pearl-grey, wfith a lilac blush ; eyebrows rusty white, finely 
mottled with black, and continued on each side of the head until they 
unite on the nape, immediately over the crest ; the latter pale chesnut, 
darkest towards the point; ear coverts wood-brown; chin and a blotch on 
each side of the breast in front of wings white, the former divided along its 
centre by a narrow black stripe broadest behind. Back, shoulders, scapulars, 
and tertiary quill feathers, between ochre and cream-yellow ; all the feathers 
finely variegated by numerous waved, somewhat transverse black lines, and 
all except those of the back marked besides, by lanceolate black stripes 
edo-ed and tipt with cream-yellow. The secondary wing coverts black 
towards their quills, white towards their tips ; the last colour so disposed as to 
form an oblique white band along the wing. Primary quill coverts and quill 
feathers brownish black with transverse white blotches ; tail coverts and tail 
feathers, white, closely barred by fine black lines, the lateral feathers broadly 
tipt with pure black, the two middle ones crossed near their extremities by a 
pure black band, which behind is edged w 7 ith white, the inner vanes of these 
two feathers black at the points, the outer vanes black, with transverse white 
lines. The breast, belly and under tail coverts, black. Upper mandible 
and claws of a dark horn-colour ; the lower mandible greenish yellow towards 
