. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . ssy black, in some lights showing a distinct blue or purplish sheen,more especially on the feathers of the breast and crest. Back black,each feather with two broad bars of buff mottled with black, thegeneral appearance of the back being thus a mottled black and buff,the former predominating. The bases of the feathers are black, andin quite freshly-plumaged birds there is a narrow buff fringe to thetips of the feathers, which, however, soon gets abraded so that thetips generally appear black. Inner scapulars like the back, but themottlings are even

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. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . ssy black, in some lights showing a distinct blue or purplish sheen,more especially on the feathers of the breast and crest. Back black,each feather with two broad bars of buff mottled with black, thegeneral appearance of the back being thus a mottled black and buff,the former predominating. The bases of the feathers are black, andin quite freshly-plumaged birds there is a narrow buff fringe to thetips of the feathers, which, however, soon gets abraded so that thetips generally appear black. Inner scapulars like the back, but themottlings are even more irregular; the centres to the feathers arechiefly black and the surrounding portions vermiculated buff andblack. Tail, four centre feathers like the back, but the outermostare entirely black with narrow white tips, and the intermediatefeathers grade from one to the other. Outer scapulars black, a fewof the feathers more or less mottled with buff on the inner webs,inner secondaries like the back, but with numerous bars of black, not X Q_. afcaSf*-;

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