. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. 071 the Rezent Bird. 127. Turkish crescent, the tips nearly but not quite meeting where they touched the forehead band ; in the younger (see drawing) the horns pointed pretty nearly straight forward respectively to- wards the two nostrils; and so, as a result, the buff of the forehead ran upwards nearly to the centre of the crown—in the elder in the shape say of an orange connected by a stalk with the forehead band, in the younger more in the shape of a tongue. The ends of the dark cross band jutting down on each side behind the eye nearly severed
. The Avicultural magazine. Birds; Cage birds. 071 the Rezent Bird. 127. Turkish crescent, the tips nearly but not quite meeting where they touched the forehead band ; in the younger (see drawing) the horns pointed pretty nearly straight forward respectively to- wards the two nostrils; and so, as a result, the buff of the forehead ran upwards nearly to the centre of the crown—in the elder in the shape say of an orange connected by a stalk with the forehead band, in the younger more in the shape of a tongue. The ends of the dark cross band jutting down on each side behind the eye nearly severed the continuation of the forehead band which ran back over each eye, and formed over each a large spot of sandy. On September 14 I found that a solid square patch of new feathers was sprouting and replacing the down on the hinder crown ; this developed into the crown patch of the brown Regent, and came up to and touched the hind centre of the dark cross- bar. The neck feathers were growing; and by the end of Sep- tember the crown patch seemed to extend right down the back of the neck, almost black in the front but shading in succession into dark and light brown and gray until it merged in the mottled white of the mantle. Then as the feathers matured the shadings gradually dispersed, and by October 6 the lower hind-neck cross- patch of black was observable, the black throat patch appearing a little later. I had great difficulty in observing the slowly changing crown of the young bird; on November 7 however it saw a banshee or something and flew to me, and for about two minutes sat absolutely rigid •'•' on a perch almost touching me, so that as I stooped it was directly below my eyes and scarcely a foot distant. The sandy globe in the front had as it were expanded and pushed back the encircling horns ; the horns were now stout and rather rugged, the tips being over the eyes ; the base of the now ex- panded crescent rested on the crown patch, the colour being of a * For some
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