The following are dimensions of adults :—
Males.—Length, 11'6 to 13-4 ; expanse, 17-4 to 20'0 ; wing,
5-3 to 6 0 ; tail from vent, 3-35 to 4-0; tarsus, 14 to 1 7 ; bill
from gape, C87 to C96 ; weight, 9 ozs. to 12 ozs.
Females.—Length, io'2 to i r g ; expanse, 165 to l8'3 ; wing,
5-0 to 5'68 ; tail from vent, 3'2 to 375 ; tarsus, 1-37 to 1-58 ; bill
from gape, 075 to 0^89 ; weight, 7 ozs. to I I ozs.
The legs are bright red ; the feet somewhat dingier ; the claws
pinkish brown ; the spur, in the male, pink at base, brown at
tip ; the irides are dark brown, with a row of tiny whitish
feathers at the edges of the lids ; the rest of the skin round
the eye greenish grey; bill dusky brown or blackish ; lower
mandible and gape paler, in some whitish, in some a dingy
greenish grey.
T H E PLATE is fair, but the general colouring is rather too bright,
the barring on the breast is somewhat too coarse, the bills are not
nearly dark enough, and the feet should be more dingy.
In some specimens the throat, instead of being a fawny white,
is a decided rufous, and occasionally specimens are met with iii
which this part is ferruginous, as figured by Temminck.
In some parts of the country the birds are altogether greyer
and paler than the specimens we have figured.