Chap. XIII. ] 



DECORATION. 



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in the centre of which the head " looks like a little eme- 

 rald sun with its rays formed by the two plumes." 68 In 

 another most beautiful species the head is bald, " and of a 



Fig. 48.— Lophornis ornatus, male and female (from Brehm). 



M Quoted from M. de Lafresnaye, in ' Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist ' 

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