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The feathers on the flanks of some of them are silky, and singu- 

 larly extended into bunches longer than the body, which give such a 

 hold to the wind that they are very often swept away by it. There 

 are also two bearded filaments adhering to the rump, which are as 

 long, and even longer than the feathers on the flanks. (l) 



P. apoda, L.; Enl. 254; Vaill. Ois. de Par. pi. 1; Vieill. Ois. 

 de Par. pi. 1. Size of a thrush; maronne; top of the head and 

 neck yellow; circumference of the beak and throat of an eme- 

 rald green. It is the male of this species which is ornamented 

 with those long bundles of yellowish feathers, employed by the 

 ladies as plumes. There is a somewhat smaller race. 



P. rubra, Vaill. pi. 6; Vieill. pi. 3. The fascicles of flank 

 feathers of a beautiful red, and the filaments broader and con- 

 cave on one side. 

 In others we still find the filaments, but the feathers on the flanks, 

 although somewhat elongated, do not extend beyond the tail. 



P. regia, Enl. 496; Vaill. 7; Vieill. 5, and Galer. 96. Size 

 of a finch; a fine purple maronne; white belly; a band across 

 the breast, the tips of the flank-feathers, and the barbs which 

 widen the extremities of the two long filaments, emerald- 

 green. (2) 



P. magnificat Sonnerat, 98; Enl. 631; Vaill. 9; Vieill. 4. 

 Maronne above; green beneath and on the flanks; quills of the 

 wings yellow; a fascicle of straw-coloured feathers on each side 

 of the neck, another of a deeper yellow opposite to the fold of 

 the wing. 

 Some have the slender feathers on the flanks, but they are short, 

 and the filaments on the rump are wanting. 



P. aurea, Gm.;P. sexsetacea, Shaw; Sonnerat, pi. 97; Enl. 

 635; Vaill. 12; Vieill. 6, and Galer. 97. Size of a Thrush; black; 

 a golden-green spot on the throat; three feathers from each ear 

 extended into long filaments, terminated by a small disk of barbs 

 of the same colour as the spot on the throat.(3) 

 Others again have no filaments, nor are the feathers of the flanks 

 elongated. In 



P. superba, Sonnerat, 96; Enl. 632; Vaill. 14; Vieill. 7; Ga- 

 ler. 98(4), the feathers of the scapulars are prolonged, how- 

 ever, into a kind of mantlet which can be laid so as to cover the 

 wings, and those of the breast into a sort of pendent and forked 

 coat-of-arms. With the exception of this latter, which is of a 



(1) M. Vieillot has made a genus of my first division, which he calls Samalia. 



(2) Vieillot makes his genus Cincinnukus of this species. 



(3) This species constitutes the genus Pahotia, Vieill. Gal. 97. 



(4) This species forms the genus Lophorina, Gal. 98. 



