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mottled with black, while those of Sonnerat are all black. Finally 
the shoulder-coverts of the wing have the white median Sonnerat-stripe. 
Taken all in all, this F, cock may be described as almost exactly inter- 
mediate between Bankiva and Sonnerat. 
Not so its brother:270.2 & (Pl. IV fig. 4, colored PI. II fig 1) which 
can be described from the living specimen. The comb is rather large 
with a square free posterior end and 5 large and 2 small teeth be- 
tween it and the bill. It has three folds anteriorly; the wattles are 
large, and well developed earwattles are present. Comb and wattles, 
as well as the skin of the face, are darkred, the center of the earlappets 
white, the billis of a yellowish horncolour with considerable black in the 
upper mandible. The iris is yellow, radially spotted with brown. The 
earcoverts are bristly, yellow. The hackles are orange yellow, paling 
posteriorly, have a white shaft stripe and a bluish black median part. 
They show distinct simili-waxy spots at the tips. The feathers of the 
back and the wingcoverts together form a marroon cross-zone with 
rudiments of Sonnerat waxy spots broadening on the wingcoverts. The 
saddle-feathers are much like the hackles, they and the wingcoverts, 
which have still an orange margin, showsimili-waxy tips. The tailcoverts 
are bluish; some with distinct violet crossbars, the tailfeathers black 
with a strong green gloss. The breastfeathers have a white shaftstripe 
and are laced with brown. The sonnerat-belt is very clear under the 
wingcoverts; the lateral feathers below this belt are black with a 
white shaftstripe and laced with pale brown. Otherwise the undersurface 
is black with a greenish gloss. The tighs are covered with small black 
feathers, laced with pale brown. Shanks and toes dark yellow, spurs 
black. The whole animal is a beautiful rather large Bantam. 
The hen 270.4, also alive, is a very small animal, (Fig 5 Pl. IV, Fig. 1 Pl. 
IX) on the dorsal surface quite bankivian. It has a small comb., redu- 
ced to a ridge in front, the backpart, small also, stands almost upright 
and has three long teeth in front, three small ones at the back, the watt- 
les are very small, the earlappets also, the latter have a greenish cen- 
ter. Face, wattles and comb rather pale red. Bill like the one of the 
cock. Grayish-yellow bristly earcoverts. Hackles with a white shaftstri- 
pe, a black median part and yellow margins. Backfeathers and saddle 
irregularly striped with black, rather than mottled, and witha grayish 
margin. Wingcoverts more brownish; also the shaftstripe. Secondaries 
