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A ves.— P late IY . (Male.1
Mas. 0 . capita supra cceruleo-griseo; fascia suborbitali colloque griseis, pallide brunneo spams; stria
superciliari sordide albd, nigro variegata usque ad nucham porrecta; crista castaned; mento, regione
parotica, macul&que ante alas albis, illo fascid longitudinal! nigri; dorso isabellino lineis nigris
undatis, variegatis; scapularibus, interscapularibus, humerisque prseterea maculis lanceolatis nigris
notatis flavo-albo marginatis; alarum tectricibus secundariis apicibus albis, tectricibus primaribus,
remiigbusque nigro-brunneis, albo maculatis; pectore ventreque nigris; oculis rubro-brunneis;
pedibus albo-flavis; mandibuld superiore unguibusque Yiridi-nigris, mandibula inferiore ad basin
subflavS, ad apicem livida.
Otis Ruficrista, Rep. of Exped. App. page 56, June 1836.
C olour.—The upper surface of the head intermediate between bluish and
blackish grey; a stripe below each eye, and the neck pearl-grey, the latter
closely freckled with wood-brown, except at the lower part of the throat, where
the colour is pure pearl-grey, with a lilac blush ; eyebrows rusty white, finely
mottled with black, and continued on each side of the head until they
unite on the nape, immediately over the crest; the latter pale chesnut,
darkest towards the point; ear coverts wood-brown; chin and a blotch on
each side of the breast in front of wings white, the former divided along its
centre by a narrow black stripe broadest behind. Back, shoulders, scapulars,
and tertiary quill feathers, between ochre and cream-yellow; all the feathers
finely variegated by numerous waved, somewhat transverse black lines, and
all except those of the back marked besides, by lanceolate black stripes
edged and tipt with cream-yellow. The secondary wing coverts black
towards their quills, white towards their tips; the last colour so disposed as to
form an oblique white band along the wing. Primary quill coverts and quill
feathers, brownish black with transverse white blotches ; tail coverts and tail
feathers, white, closely barred by fine black lines, the lateral feathers broadly
tipt with pure black, the two middle ones crossed near their extremities by a
pure black band, which behind is edged with white, the inner vanes of these
two feathers black at the points, the outer vanes black, with transverse white
lines. The breast, belly and under tail coverts, black. Upper mandible
and claws of a dark horn-colour ; the lower mandible greenish yellow towards