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with brownish-white, gradually becoming deeper toward the 
proximate feathers, which are similar to the coverts. The lower 
part of the back and tail coverts are deep chestnut, banded with 
green and black. The tail feathers are of the same color, undu- 
latingly bronzed and minutely sprinkled with black, and having 
a broad, blackish bar toward the tip, which is pale brown, and 
minutely mottled. The under parts are duller. Breast of the 
same colors as the back, the terminal black bands not so broad ; 
sides dark colored ; abdomen and thighs brownish-gray ; under 
tail coverts blackish, glossed with bronze, and at the tip bright 
reddish-brown. 
“ Length, four feet one inch ; extent of wing, five feet eight 
inches ; beak, one inch and a half along the ridge, two inches 
along the gap. Tarsus, seven inches and one quarter; middle 
toe, five inches, hind toe two; pectoral appendage one foot. 
Such are the dimensions of an individual of which I made a 
drawing, which I need not say was a fine specimen. 
“ The female is considerably inferior in size, with the wattles 
much smaller, the tuft on the breast comparatively small, and 
only in old birds; the color of the plumage duller, there being 
but little of the refulgent hues of the male, the lower parts 
brownish-black. The young, before being fledged, are pale 
brownish-yellow, pale yellowish-gray below, the top of the head 
brighter, marked in the middle with a pale longitudinal brown 
band; the back and wings spotted with brownish-black, except¬ 
ing the smaller wing coverts, which are uniformly dull brown ” 
