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easily seen a.s might be supposed, for its colour harmonizes 

 well with the foliage and bark of the trees among which 

 it dwells, and even the rich carmine of its under surface 



Fig. 117. — the peacock tkogox. 

 (Trogon pavoninus.) 



is not very conspicuous in that land of flowei^. Its head 



is decorated with a curiously-shaped tuft of slight and 



elastic feathers that s^jring from the forehead, and by 



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