46 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR: 
greenish blue, this colour changing abruptly into a violet red, which 
extends over the whole remaining four-fifths of the comb. In some indi- 
viduals this is almost clear deep red, again the violet, peach-bloom 
sheen may cover almost all of it. The rim is usually pure blood red. The 
lower eyelid is dull violet in the centre, changing into pale yellow 
around the edge. When the eye is open this colouring is invisible, but 
when drawn up over the eye, the lid stands out clearly against the fa- 
cial red. The whole unfeathered part of the crown, lores, the face to the 
edge of the feathering all around, including the small, sub-auricular 
wattles, chin throat and anterior two-thirds of the median throat 
wattle, are deep blood red. The wattle begins well up between the lower 
mandibular rami and extends far down on the neck, hanging down- 
ward as a large median fold of skin. In fully adult birds at the breeding 
season this may be two and a half inches in length. The free ends of the 
feathers of the neck, truncated though they are, reach cape-like over 
the bare throat, and when the head of the bird is drawn down, the watt- 
le is almost completely hidden except for a portion of the anterior red. 
When courting or preparing to fight, or when the head is stretched out 
for any reason, the full glory of pigmentation of the wattle excels even 
that of the comb. Beginning at the lowest fold of the small facial, sub- 
auricular wattles, a band of intensely brilliant chrome yellow extends 
downwards, gradually widening, to beyond .the attached end of the 
wattle and almost to the posterior free end. The remainder of this or- 
gan, the lower outer portion, is a rich azure blue, sometimes with a hint 
of greenish. The relation of the three colors to one another is interes- 
ting, and also the character of the skin itself in the respective zones of 
pigmentation. The yellow is abruptly marked off from the other two 
colours, while the red and the blue show a considerable area of gra- 
dual transition, a violet which appears darker than either colour. The 
yellow area is the most folded and creased, the lines being transverse, 
longitudinal and diagonal, forming a complex network, The red hardly 
shows its rather longitudinal wrinkling, while the blue is conspicuously 
marked with dark wrinkles running at right angles to the edge of the 
wattle. In fully adult birds, the face and entire wattle, are free of fea- 
thering, the last traces being a small patch of black featherlets on the 
throat and wattle in the red area close to the yellow. 
Iris lemon, orange or pale straw color. Mandibles usually pale horn 
color. The base of the upper mandible may be black or dark reddish 
