at tip, the outer being also of that colour on its outer margin. 
The feet are dark plumbeous, the tarsus being seven-eighths of 
an inch long, and feathered for a short space in front. 
The young of both sexes are, no less than the adult, perfectly 
alike; as they advance in age, the margins of the feathers 
disappear, and the black becomes deep and glossy, and all the 
colours much purer; the scarlet of the head comes on very 
gradually, so that specimens are found with merely a reddish 
tinge, and generally with a few dots on the hind neck: it is one 
of these specimens with a few streaks of red, that we have 
selected for the sake of ornamenting the plate, as well as to 
exemplify the manner in which the change takes place. No such 
mark appears at first. 
In the adult the whole head, neck, and breast, are bright and 
deep scarlet, with the feathers black at base; the back, scapulars, 
and smaller wing-coverts are rich glossy black; the rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and from the breast beneath, white, the bottom of 
the plumage being plumbeous, and the tail-coverts with blackish 
shafts; the wings and tail are black; the lower wing-coverts pure 
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white, with the margin of the wing deep black; the secondaries 
are white, shafted to near the tip with black; the last of the 
primaries being also white at tip, and on the greater part of the 
base of the outer vane; the small lanceolate outer feather is 
white, black on the shaft and base of the inner vane; the two 
next only being tipped with white, the outer of which is also 
white on the exterior margin. 
