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The female has all the upper surface greyish brown, tinged 

 with olive ; head and sides of the neck dark brown, striated 

 with greyish brown ; over each eye a superciliary stripe of 

 buff ; wing-feathers edged with ferruginous ; chin and throat 

 pale buff; remainder of the under surface, under wing- 

 coverts, and the base of the inner webs of the quills rich deep 

 reddish buflp, each feather with an irregular spot of brown 

 near the tip, dilated on the flanks in the form of irregular 

 bars ; bill and feet black. 



Male, length 10^ inches ; bill If ; wing 5 ; tail 3 J ; tarsi 1:^. 



Genus CRASPEDOPHORA, G. R. Gray. 



The Epimaclius magnijicus of Cuvier differing from the 

 members of the genus Ptilorhis in form and colovu'ing, Mr. 

 G. R. Gray has made it the type of his genus Craspedopkora. 



Sp.365. CRASPEDOPHORA MAGNIFICA. 

 Magnificent Rifle-Bird. 



Le Promefil, Levaill. Ois. de Parad., p. 36, pi. 16. 



Falcinellus magnijicus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., toni. xxviii. 



p. 167, pi. G. 30. No. 3. 

 Epimachus magnificus, Cuv. Regii. Anim., pi. 4. fig. 2. 



paradiseus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. pi. xxxii. 



splendidus, Steph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 77. 



Craspedophora magnijica, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit. 



p. 15. 



Ptiloris magnifica, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, pi. 



" It is New Guinea," says Vieillot, " that country in which 

 are found the most beautiful birds in the world, and the most 

 remarkable for the singularity of their plumage, that is the 

 habitat of this species, one of the richest of its family." " It 

 is still," says M. Lesson, writing in 1830, " very rarely met 

 with in collections ; the individual in the gallery of the 

 Museum (at Paris) was procured in London, at the sale of 



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