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so well together in a dress J am not quite sure, 
but your mother would know all about that. Only 
you must remember that such a golden-green and 
such a vermilion as this Trogon has were never 
seen together—no, or separately either—in any 
dress yet. 
These beautiful Quezals live in the forests of 
Mexico, and they like to sit lazily on the branch 
of a tree, and let their beautiful long tails (which 
we know are not rea//y tails) hang down underneath 
it, like the “‘ funny feathers” of the Birds of Paradise. 
At least the male birds like to do that, because the 
female Quezals have not got those beautiful, long 
feathers, although they are very fine birds even with- 
out them. They are not so handsome as the males, 
but they are not plain like the female Humming- 
birds or Birds of Paradise. Perhaps the male Quezals 
show off their fine feathers to the females by letting 
them hang down like that, because, of course, long, 
soft, drooping feathers, such as they have, would 
not stand up in the air, like those of the peacock 
or of the Lyre-bird. But very likely they have 
some other nice way of showing them. 
Now, although the Quezal or Resplendent Trogon 
is such a magnificent bird, he is not so very often 
seen. It is difficult to find him in the dense forest, 
and I wish it was still more difficult than it is, for 
