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dusky grey; abdomen and under tail-coverts pale ciunamon-rufous, crossed mth 
vermiculate bair-bro.vm bars, the longest under tail-coverts darker and vuthout bars; 
under wing-coverts, axillaries and inner edges of qui s w rcre t ey res 
upon the body deep cinnamon-rufous; remiges below dark blown, tai si(mgy 
graduated, the three outer feathers more or less cinnamon-rufoub, wit i an i 
subteiniinal blackish bar vvliich is bluish grey below ([c?] near Manac o, ug. ep . 
1893: I^at. Ooll. — C 10927). ^ , 
Adult male [younger?]. Like the above, but the cervical collar light metallic niagen a-purp 
instead of metalhc bronze-green; sinciput and throat light reddish cinnamon, ins ea 
of whitish; the hair-hrown bars on the under-parts narrower. “Iris of two nngs, tiie 
outer red, the inner bluish white; feet light red; hill black” (cf, Kema, 31. Juij, 
1893: P. &F. Sarasin). , „ r i , 
Kale assuming the adult dress. Uj)per surface varied with featheis of cu iver 
(new feathers!) like the adult, and with dusky hrown feathers, broadly bordered and 
penultimately barred and vermiculated with deep cinnamon-rufous (old feathers.) h e 
the young; cervix dusky brown, vermiculated with greyish and cinnamon 
thers); occiput and jugulum cinnamon-rufous; forehead and throat 
under-parts much as in the adnlt male ([cTJ? Mantehage, 22. April, 1893. 
Coll. — 0 12115). . 
Young. A specimen in what we take for the first plumage is blackish above, t e wing 
coverts, inner quills, lower back and upper tail-coverts broadly tipped with deep 
cinnamon-red, the feathers of hind-neck and mantle tipped and harred with paler 
cinnamon; head and nape deep cinnamon-red, the bases and lower sides of the 
feathers hlack; jugulum, hreast and abdomen deep cinnamon-red, the breast- 
feathers crossed with subterminal dusky bars, those of the jugulum with most of the 
base black; the black subterminal patches on the tail well-defined (Kuang Id., 
31. August, 1894: Nat. Coll. — C 13464). . 
Adnlt female. Wliat we take for the old female is much like the young, but has the dare 
reddish bars of the upper surface much narrower and more obscure, the plumage 
approaching the almost uniform dull hver-brown of the male; head above and jugu- 
lum deep chmamon-rufous; under-parts paler cinnamon with indications of vermiculate 
bars, best seen on the breast (Banka, 3''^ May, 1893: Nat. Coll. 0 12116). 
Nest-young. A few days old, nearly naked; with sprouting quills, sprouting feathers on sides 
of jugulum, thighs, hack, etc. Ten primaries are present, as also a small greater co- 
vert situated distally over the tenth, but there is no trace of an eleventh primal y 
(Tomohon, 22. IV. 94: P.&F. Sarasin). 
Measurements of adults. 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) c? ad., Kema, Minahassa, 31. VII. 93 . ■ 
b. (C 10826 ) [(^’1 ad., near Tondano, Aug. — Sept. 1892 (Nat. Coll 
c. (C 10927) [(5') ad.,nearManado, Aug. — Sept. 1892 (Nat. Coll 
d. (Nr. 13391) [cf] ad., Minahassa (v. Musschenbr.) • • 
e. (Nr. 13410) [o’] ad., Manado, March, 1871 (Meyer) . 
f. (Nr. 13392) [cT] ad., Manado (v. Musschenbr.) . • • 
g. (Nr. 13412) [cf] ad., Gorontalo (Biedel) • ■ ■ ' ' 
h. (C 12111) [c;^] ad., Banlca Id., May, 1893 (Nat. o .) 
i. (C 12114) [rj'] ad., Banka Id., May, 1893 
j. (C 12112) [(f] ad., Mantehage, Apr. 1893 (Nat. Co d 
k. (C 13461) [o’] ad., Tagulandang, Aug. 1894 (Na . •) 
Wink 
Tail 
Bill from 
feathers of 
forehead 
158 
190 
15.5 
159 
185 
14.5 
154 
170 
14.5 
160 
190 
— 
159 
200 
— 
164 
185 
— 
165 
190 
— 
158 
200 
15 
156 
195 
14.5 
160 
185 
14 
164 
195 
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