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floating plumes, no gem-like featliers, and no brilliant colors. The 

 head is dark-brown ; the neck, light-brown ; the upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail, reddish chestnut ; the breast and belly, white. 

 In Bennett's " Wanderings " is an interesting description of Mr. 

 Beale's bird, at Macao. The writer says : " Tbis elegant creature has 



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a light, playful, and graceful manner, with an arch and impudent 

 look ; dances about when a visitor approaches the cage, and seems de- 

 lighted at being made an object of admiration. Its notes are very 

 peculiar, resembling the cawing of a raven ; but its tones are, by far, 

 more varied. It washes itself regularly, twice daily, and, after hav- 

 ing performed its ablutions, throws its delicate feathers up, nearly 

 over the head, the quills of which feathers have a peculiar structure. 



