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FEMALE: Rusty red on head, shading into orange on neck and pale 
yellow on mantle with median black stripe. Upper partsreddish brown, 
finely mottled with black. Secondaries mottled with pale brown on ou- 
ter webs. Fore neck chestnut. Rest of under-parts pale light red. Face 
thinly feathered, comb very small. 
Range North-Eastern and Central India, south through Siam, Co- 
chin-China and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. Introduced in many 
other islands of the East-Indias. 
Detailed description. ADULT MALE: The following descriptions of the 
birds refer to specimens which appear to be pure-blooded, from birds 
which were secured at a considerable distance from human habitation. 
Top of the head, neck and upper mantle orange red or dark orange, 
the longer hackles paling posteriorly into orange or orange-yellow. The 
latter color is confined to a very wide disintegrated border, the concea- 
led central, solid portions of the vane varying from slightly darker to a 
smoky brown. These hackles are slender and greatly elongated, cove- 
ring and concealing the real feathers of the mantle and upper back. 
Midmantle dull brown, sometimes showing a purplish sheen. Lower 
mantle and lesser coverts glossed with purplish blue or green. A line of 
feathers bordering the entire ventral border of the hackles, scapulars, 
central line of the lower back and median wing-coverts rich dark ma- 
roon red, shading into orange-red or orange on the long, soft, hackle- 
like feathers of the sides of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts. 
Most of the maroon feathers have a concealed zone of iridescent green. 
Greater primary coverts dull brown; secondary coverts black, strongly 
glossed with purplish greea. Flight feathers brownish black, the outer 
margin of the primaries pale brownish buff and the outer half of the 
outer webs of the secondaries chestnut-buff anteriorly, deepening into 
tawny toward the tips of the feathers. This colour gradually disappears 
from the inner secondaries, and is replaced on the tertiaries by a gloss 
of green. Longer upper tail-coverts solidly glossed with green; the cen- 
tral tail-feathers lack this sheen along the shaft and towards the tip, 
while it dies out on the latteral rectrices, leaving them dull dark brown. 
There is no green gloss on the underside of any of the feathers. Ventral 
surface of the neck, breast and all the under parts uniform brownish 
black, faintly glossed with greenish. A fleshy, bare,deeply notched comb 
arises from the forehead and crown. There are two rounded gular watt- 
les and a large lappet growing just beneath the opening of each ear. 
