72 DU. R.-W. SHUFELDT, C. M. Z. S. 



Tliis gave mo an excollont oppoiiniiily lo study Ihe 

 habils ül" Ihe hird in confmomcnl, as woll as to make pho- 

 lograplis of liini willi tho view of showing his natural 

 attitudes and behaviour. In this latter Operation I was 

 entirely successful, and succeeded in securing a number of 

 very satisfaclory negatives. X photograph from one of the 

 best of these is reproduced here as an illustration to the 

 present article. 



l found tho bird, a male, to be not very wild, although 

 it took U) tlight scveral times in the large room where I 

 had let ils loose to observe it behaviour. 



In natiire this l)ird frequently in giving its call mounts 

 on the top of old posts or stumps, or roots of upturned trees. 

 It rarely lights, in the latler however, being essentially a 

 ground-loving species. So when I came to photograph it, 

 I allowed the specimen to walk up and down on a tree- 

 trunk, hxed for the purpose in a sub-horizonlal position 

 in front of the camera. 



The most satisfactory exposure was ma(k^ just as it was 

 about to lly otTthe end of this stump. 



White Walking about it was with a very digiiiüed niien, 

 with its plumage generally kept pressed close to its body, 

 and the « plume » carried at almost any angle from the 

 horizontal line to the vertical one. Its crcst is quite an 

 independent ornament from the plume. but both may be 

 erected together as is shown to be the case in my Illustra- 

 tion. The two feathers conslituting the lalter are kept in 

 contactfor their entire lengths at all times and in all posi- 

 tions, giving the appearance oftheir being but one of them. 

 This plume is nearly straight, and not decidedly curved 

 and the feathers separated, as shown in Audubon's ulterly 

 incorrect and ridiculous figure of this species (N. S9, 

 pl. 29t) in his Birds of America. These two feather 

 are insertcd one directly behind the other on the middle 

 of the crown of the head, in a sniall, longitudinal and 

 narrow apterium Ihere occurriiig. Tliis was first figured, 

 I believo, by Dr. Hubert Lyman (dark in his memoir The 

 Feather-Tracts of North Aiuericaii Groiise and Quail (1898, 



