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the face of an nverhanging boulder, about 14ft. up, on a small 

 sloping edge . . . .the hen sat very close. . . .on examination the 

 nest appeared t;:> be built of fibrous material, worked up with 

 some gelatinous substance, and plastered on the outside with dried 

 lichen or moss; in shape forming about two tliirds of a circle. 

 It contained two eggs, about the size of a pigeon's, dirty white, 



with large I'usty coloui-ed lilotches at the larger end 



numerous daneing jilare-^ were found The dances were 



always stai'ted by an old cock who, taking up a position on .a 

 horizontal or slightly .sloping branch, ]>referal)ly a fallen one, at 

 a height of 3 to 4 feet, would start isquawking out a ofiallenge 



Presently he would start jumping back and forth from 



his perch to the ground, giving a (piick swirl wjth open wings 

 and tail, as he struck the gi-ound and turned to regain the branch 



others joining in, until with seven or eight birds 



flashing up and down, faster and faster, it began to look some- 

 thing like a dance no hens Avere observerl, though they 



may have been watching overhead, hidden among the thick foliage. 



At the Zoo T noticed a somewhat similar performance, with 

 the addition that as the bird regained the top perch the iwings 

 were dropped, the tail outspread, the crest opened at the front and 

 brought forward till the beak was almost obscured. ■Mr. iNIillsum 

 at the Show described to me a similar performance, which he said 

 was frequently indulged in. 



The specimen is kept in Monsieur Pauvvels' l)ird-room in 

 a cage about 30 inches square by 3 feet high. 



In captivity they require a diet of ripe fruit, soft food, 

 and live insects. The soft food or insectivoi-ous mixture is best 

 given in the form of small pellets or it is I)ut seldom taken. 

 Mr. Frost also found them to be fond of boiled rice, isweetened 

 with condensed milk, and r-oloured with black-currant or blackberry 

 jam. 



Description is scarcely necessary, as in Mr. Goodchild's 

 drawing, form, and character are well rendered. It will suffice 

 to staff; the light areas in drawling are fiery orange, with the 

 exception of a white wing patch; all the dark ]5atches are black. 

 Beak and legs also orange, iris of the eye de(>p ruddy-orange. 



The female is blackish l;rown, which is also the coloui' of 

 the crest, beak and legs; the middle of abdomen and Aciui'al 

 region atre wa^h^d with orange and there is a large patch of 

 orange on the underside of wings. The crest is mucli smaller 

 than that of the male. 



The 'greatest credit attaches to the owner of this liird, in 

 placing it u]5on the bench in practically full natural colour, as 

 after the moult in cai)tivity their plumage is whitish-orange; ^fr. 

 Millsum informed me that they had managed to retain the natural 

 colour by colour-feeding— pellets of red feed and insectile mixture, 

 being place'd inside grapes and readily taken in this form. ]\Ionsieur 



