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is chiefly greenish-yellow, with a scarlet, black-edged crest. Of 
the peculiar Gymnoderinae, Huematoderus, which has elongated 
head-, neck-, rump-, and breast-feathers, is crimson with brown 
wings and tail, the female having brown on the back; Querula is 
dull black with a red collar of lengthened plumes; Pyroderus is 
black with crimson throat and fore-neck.  Cephalopterus ornatus, 
the Umbrella-bird, is entirely black, with a huge expanded 
umbrella-like crest of bare-shafted incurved feathers, and a long 
Fic. 103.—Umbrella-bird. Cephalopterus ornatus. x4. 
flattened and feathered gular wattle; C. penduliger has this append- 
age extraordinarily long and cylindrical; C. glabricollis a bare 
orange throat with a terminal tuft on the red outgrowth. Chas- 
morhynchus niveus is white, with a spiral erectile process on the 
forehead, thinly covered with white feathers: C. nudicollis has 
the cheeks and throat naked and bristly, but lacks the excrescence; 
C. variegatus is white, with a brown head, black wings, and bare 
papillose throat; C. tricarunculatus is chestnut, with a white 
head bearing three caruncles, on the forehead and at the gape. 
In this genus the females are green above and chiefly yellow 
below. The bill may be orange or red in the Family, while Gym- 
noderus alone has large white powder-down patches on the flanks. 
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