254 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
with brown, while its feathers have a rather conspicuous white shaft- 
stripe, due to Sonnerat. 
On the dorsal side the hackles show a black median stripe, while the 
Sonnerat influence is very clear in the white shaftstripe of the shoulder 
coverts. The tail-coverts have a peculiar mixture of bankivian, sonne- 
vatian and varius colors. 
The cock 391.7% & which is still alive, (now numbered 391.18, photo 
Pl. IX fig. 11), isa very peculiar animal because it cackles almost conti- 
nuously like a hen which has laid an egg. It has a red, rather warty 
comb, with a large proximal untoothed part, followed by one with 
onesmall and 3 large teeth, and ending in a large flap with an indenta- 
tion at the lower surface. Comb, gullar wattles and earlappets are rather 
dark red. The iris is golden with an almost white inner border. The 
bill is of a rather dark horncolour. 
The general pattern of the dorsal side is that of a bankiva, but lighter, 
and the hackles have a dark black median stripe. There is a considerable 
amount of white in the shoulder-coverts, doubtless due to sonneratt 
and some white on the outer vane of the primaries; the secondaries are 
pale brown, the tail is bluish-green. 
The ventral surface is very light, considerably lighter even than Son- 
nerat, but with some brown in it. The neckfeathers show both white 
and brown and some black in addition. 
The leggs are yellowish green, with some rudiments of the red Son- 
nerat-stripes. 
The cock 391.10 & is stuffed. and is very much like 391.18 &, especi- 
ally by its pale ventral surface and the sonneratian white in the shoulder- 
coverts. On its dorsal surface it is slightly darker than the former. 
The cock 391.11 3 (Pl. IX fig. 9) is still alive and is at once characteri- 
sed by its blue-red comb, gullar wattles and earlappets. The comb be- 
gins near the bill with a smooth part, followed by one with a small 
tooth, then a smooth part again, and after that 1 rather large, 1 small, 
1 large, 1 small and again 1 large tooth, and finally a smooth endpiece. 
On the dorsal side the pattern is chiefly bankivian, but as the black 
median stripes of the hackles are very conspicuous, the general aspect 
is rather different from a pure bankiva. The tail is greenish blue, the 
tailcoverts are violet. Nearly all the primaries are black, the outer 
ones only have a brown external seam. The secondaries are externally 
chiefly brown, internally chiefly black, but all are black near and at the 
