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the tips of the latter, which are brown. Sides of the face wattled 

 to an extent seldom seen even among gallinaceous birds; in 

 front it extends to the nostrils, while posteriorly it terminates 

 in a point near the occiput ; a large lappet hangs down over 

 each cheek, and a more pointed one rises, in the form of a horn, 

 high above the crown, the whole being of the finest red, and 

 covered with papillse, as in the Gennceus nychthemerus ; bill light 

 horn-colour. 



" Total length 28 in. ; bill l^ ; wing 9 ; tail 17 ; tarsi 4. . 



" Female. This sex oflFers a strong contrast to the male, from 

 there being no appearance of a crest in any specimen I have 

 seen, and in the entire plumage being reddish or orange-brown, 

 particularly the under surface ; when examined in detail, how- 

 ever, many different but harmonizing tints are seen on various 

 parts of the body: on the back of the neck, mantle, scapularies, 

 and lesser wing-coverts the freckled brown feathers have lanceo- 

 late or spearhead-shaped markings, surrounded with black down 

 the centres, while the rump and upper tail-coverts are more 

 uniformly and more finely freckled with orange and dark brown ; 

 primaries alternately barred on both surfaces with chestnut and 

 dark brown ; secondaries dark brown, conspicuously barred with 

 ochre-yellow ; throat brownish grey ; chest orange-brown, each 

 feather with two crescentic markings of dark brown ; centre of 

 the abdomen and thighs orange-brown, slightly freckled with 

 dark brown ; two centre tail-feathers dark brown, obscurely 

 barred with buff; lateral tail-feathers nearly uniform deep chest- 

 nut ; bill horn-colour ; space surrounding the eye and legs red. 



"Total length 18 in.; bill Ij ; wing 8^; tail 8; tarsi 3. 



" Remark. — This exceedingly beautiful species is one of the 

 most remarkable novelties I have had the good fortune to de- 

 scribe : in size it is somewhat smaller than the Gennceus nychthe- 

 merus, which it resembles in its red wattles and in the form of 

 its tail; while in its strong legs, the scaly stiff feathers of the 

 lower part of its back, the red and white colouring of the an- 

 terior portion of its upper surface, and in its steel-blue crest it 

 more closely assimilates, in my opinion, to the members of the 

 genus Euplocamus ; and with that group (the Firebacks) I have 

 accordingly associated it." 



