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make a water-colour sketch of the head before he skinned it. 

 The whole plumage had a bloom on it similar to that on a 

 plum, which shook off like the powder from a cockatoo's 

 feathers. Iris dark crimson, legs and feet leaden grey. 

 Indian name " Ushqui paua." 



249. Cephalopterus penduliger Scl. 



Two males and two females from the neighbourhood of 

 Santo Domingo on the Pacific side. Around that locality 

 the birds must have been fairly numerous at certain seasons^ 

 for we ourselves saw them on several occasions out of ranjre. 

 Also in the huts of the Indians I saw some plucked ready for 

 the pot, and from them I secured a large bunch of the 

 pendulous throat-feathers. All those that we shot or saw were 

 in the gloomiest parts of the forests and generally in the tops 

 of the highest trees, while only on one occasion did we see a 

 pair together. They fed on the large fruits of a species of 

 palm of no great height, and while they were feeding in the 

 early morning we were able to secure our specimens by con- 

 cealing ourselves in the thick bushes at the foot of the tree. 

 The fruits, which they swallowed whole, resembled a hard 

 green date and were quite two inches in length. In repose, 

 and when flying, they carry the long wattle drawn up tightly 

 to the chest : it consists of ring after ring of feathers, 

 all beautifully fitting into one another aud forming a thick 

 tassel. The pair we saw together Avere copulating. The 

 male bird jumped about from branch to branch in front 

 of the female, with his throat (as it appeared to me) very 

 considerably distended. His crest was very full and thick 

 and spread out all around his head. Occasionally he gave 

 utterance to a prolonged grunt, and as he did so the throat- 

 wattle was lowered to its fullest length. I was told by the 

 natives that the nest was in the holes of trees. The skin is 

 tough and coarse, and the flesh of a very dark colour. These 

 birds require a good deal of shot to kill them outright. 

 Local name " Pajaro toro " or " Toro pisco," which both 

 mean Bull-bird — " Pisco '^ being the Quichua for bird. We 

 only once saw the Eastern species (C ornatus), on the banks 

 of the Rio Cosanga below Baeza. 



