The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society October 1919

The legs are very powerful and are armed with a short blunt spur ; the wings are rounded the first primary the shortest and the fourth and fifth sub-equal and longest*. [...] The tail is strongly graduated the central The bastard wing is enormously developed and o: a different col ) tr to the rest of the wing in most of the species. [...] The bill is rather small and the feathers of the forehead and lores run almost up to the outer edge of the nostril. [...] A streak on either side of the crest sides of the neck hind neck upper back and the whole of the lower plumage orange-crimson ; the upper back and lower plumage from the breast to the vent with white black-edged ocelli. [...] The adult plumage of the male is assumed by degrees the black and crimson of the head neck and extreme upper breast and back being first completed whilst the crimson appears in patches on the wings scapulars and back and the ocelli make their first appearance as white dots scattered indefinitely here and there.