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and the whole lower mandible yellowish or ivory horn. Legs and feet 
varying from fleshy pink in the breeding season to quite pale whitish, 
or the posterior half of the tarsus, the bows and the spurs may be dark 
brown. 
Length 700 mm.; bill from nostril 16; wing 225; tail 325; tarsus, 
73; middle toe and claw 60; spurs slender and curved about 25 mm. 
in length. Weight 1 Ib 12 ozs. 
VORDERMAN gives in his Java-vogels II Nat. T. Ned. Indié LIX, p. 
225, the following measures of a cock shot at Mankoop in the , Afdee- 
ling’ Lamongan of the „ Residentie” Soerabaya. 1) | 
Length 525 mm., central tailfeathers 210 mm., distance between 
tips of fold wings and end of tail 170 mm., flight 655 mm.; wing 218, 
width of mouth 19; length of mouth 25, height of mouth 9, culmen ros- 
tri 11, tarsus 79, middle toe and claw 55, hindtoe and claw 22; spurs 
23 mm. in length. 
Adult female: Top of the head,neck and upper mantle sandy brown, 
the latter feathers with a wide, black, sub-marginal, concentric band, 
enclosing an area of rather rufous tone. The remaining upper plumage 
and the smaller coverts are black with buff edges and an irregular 
transverse band of rufous buff, many of the feathers with a hair-like, 
white shaft-streak. Much of the black, especially on the scapulars and 
-wing-coverts is glossed with iridescent green. Secondaries brownish 
black, barred on the outer webs with buffy white. Primaries and alula 
plain dull brown. Tail-feathers brownish black, with a few irregular 
marginal spots of buff, separated with dark areas indistinctly glossed 
with greenish. 
Lores, broad superciliary stripes and the rather scanty feathering on 
the sides of the face pale buff; chin and throat white. Ventral plumage 
brownish buff, the breast feathers margined with dark brown, andthe 
feathers in general sparsely and irregularly mottled with the same co- 
lour, especially on the sides and flanks, where the dark color forms irre- 
gular bars. *) | 
Iris pale straw yellow. Skin of face as showing through the sparse 
feathering, and the small comb reddish pink. Throat fully feathered, 
+ . 
1) the measures corresponding to those of BEEBE are printed fat. 
?) italics are ours. 
