242 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
„It looks like a barnyard cock with a very large comb with two small 
teeth at the proximal side, three large upright teeth more distally 
and a large distal part without teeth. Ear and gullar wattles large; the 
comb is very rough, warty, on the lateral sides. Earwattles red. Iris 
dark goldstone-color. On the ventral surface of the body three zones 
can be clearly distinguished because between the very pale breast and 
the nearly black belly a broad brown Sonneratian zone is present 
(Pl. V fig. 3). In the shape of the feathers of the ventral surface the 
influence of Sonnerat is plainly discernable. On the dorsal surface the 
animal is chiefly bankivian, a black median stripe however is present 
on the hackles and on the saddle feathers. 
The stuffed animal shows these characters very well, we may add 
to them: the violet gloss of the tailfeathers and of the greater wing- 
coverts and also perhaps the straw colour of the saddle and especially of 
the hackles, which are distinctly paler than in the case of bankiva-or 
of bankantam-cocks. The complete absence of the Sonnerat waxy 
spots, plainly visible in the F, father, should especially be noted. 
The small F, cock 206.3 died in rather poor condition. The only 
characters which it may have derived from Sonnerat are the black 
median stripes on the saddle feathers and on the hackles and the pecu- 
liar bluish green gloss on the tailfeathers. In all other respects it isa 
bantam, very close to bankiva with an almost pure black ventral sur- 
face with the exception of a little brown on the breast. There is an in- 
dication of partial whiteness of the tailcoverts. 
Half-brothers of these F, cocks, from the same father but from their 
mother’s sister, are the cocks 282.1 & and 282.2 &. Of the cock 282.1 $ 
(Pl. IX fig. 7 and Pl. V fig. 4) the junior author says in his notes: 
„This cock has the same bankivian pattern on the back as the cock 
206.1, but is decidedly darker and therefore more like bankiva. The last 
traces of a possible Sonnerat-influence have disappeared in the hack- 
les. Ventrally also the animal is more like a bankiva and darker than 
206.1. Breast and belly are black, mottled with brown and the differen- 
tiation in three zones is obsolete, the comb is darker red and more in- 
cised than in the case of 206.1”. 
In the spring of 1923, when this bird came under the care of the senior 
author, he wrote: , The description stil holds good in 1923; the animal 
looks very much like one of our bankantams with a mottled breast, 
the larger wing coverts have a violet gloss; it is especially noteworthy 
