Crest over the nostrils, sides of the head, neck, breast, and under
surface silvery grey, the feathers of the neck and breast being hackled,
and admitting the darker colouring of their bases to be perceived
through the interstices; elongated crest at the occiput rust-red; from
the eye to the occiput beneath the crest a line of black, which, meeting
behind, is continued for a short distance down the back of the neck; all
the upper surface dark slate-grey; primaries, secondaries, and edge of
the wing black; tail light grey at the base, black for the remainder of
its length, crossed by an irregular band of buffy grey about an inch
from the extremity; irides fiery orange, surrounded by a lash of
pink-red, and seated in a bare mealy space of the same colour, but
hardly so bright; bill bright rose-red, inclining to lilac at the tip;
fleshy part covering the nostrils and at the base of the lower mandible,
greenish lead-colour in the male, and lead-colour in the female; feet
purplish red; back of the tarsi and sole of the feet greyish brown.
The figure is of the natural size.
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