upper side; shorter stripes of same on sides of base, extending only 
65 millimeters and ending in a point on commissural line; maxilla flesh 
color above, subterminally, with a bright red nail at the tip; maxilla 
laterally broadly banded with yellow thickly and heavily dashed with 
red; mandible gray on basal half like the upper side of maxilla; ter¬ 
minal half yellow with faint red on tip of nail; gular pouch chrome 
yellow; legs and feet orange, extending to basal portion of claws, and 
with front of tibia marked with red, and with some dusky tinge on tops 
of toes. Weight, 14 poiinds avoirdupois. 
Measurements of type (adult female).— The following measure¬ 
ments were taken by the author from the fresh specimen: Length, 1530; 
alar expanse, 2600; wing, 640; tail, 215; culmen (chord), 350; greatest 
width of maxilla, 48; least width of maxilla, 39; tarsus, 133; middle 
toe and claw, 155. 
hescription of aduIt male (Cat. No. 213871, TJ.S. Nat. Mus.; shot 
by the author at the same place as the type, with which it was prob- 
. — Color¬ 
ation of plumage and soft parts like the adult female type, except 
that the breast-spot is tinged with chestnut-brown; and the crest is 
short, as usual in males of this group; weight 17 £ pounds avoirdupois. 
Measurements (taken by the author from the fresh specimen )^— 
Length, 1675; alar expanse, 2810; wing, 720; tail, 230; culmen (chord), 
380; tarsus, 145; middle toe with claw, 155. 
Remarks.— The interrelations of the group to which this form 
belongs have not been satisfactorily vorked out. Mr. W.R.Ogilvie- 
I 
Grant'^observes, under Peleeanus onocrotalus as follows: "A careful 
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