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and its surface covered with fine granulated papille. The base 
of the bill is covered with a cere, but not coloured; the pupil 
of the eye round and black, the irides brown, surrounded exter- 
nally with a narrow ring of black. 
The legs are gray, rather short for the size of the bird, and 
armed with one awl-shaped spur upon each. 
The plumage is a handsome mixture of gray, light-brown, and 
" black; the first being limited to the head, the breast, and part 
of the abdomen. The brown prevails on all the upper parts 
(except the. head), and the feathers are margined with lunate- 
shaped bars of black, extending to the superior coverts of the 
tail. This last is cuneiform, consisting of twelve or fourteen 
unequal feathers, lying in two inclined planes, the two middle- 
most greatly longer than the others, and all handsomely crossed 
with straight bars of black on a light-brown ground. 
'l'he colour of the head is darker, inclining to black ; and from 
the crown of the head to the occiput rise a few long slender 
feathers with broader tips, forming a crest inclined backward. 
. "This bird bears the Bengal climate very well, and with little 
care and trouble might be brought alive to England. The hen 
. differs but little from the male,—wanting the crest and spurs,— 
and the females yet seen wanted the two long feathers of the 
tail. 
Genus. Puastanus. Auct. 
GARDNERI. P.supra brunneus, ferrugineo undulatim sparsus ; 
. capite, collo anteriori, abdomineque rufescenti- 
bus, hujus plumis in medio pallidé ferrugineo- 
lineato. 
This singular bird is a native of the Snowy Mountains north 
of the valley of Nepaul, and was procured through the zealous 
exertions of my friend Dr. Nathaniel Wallich, aided by the 
influence 
