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NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. 



feet of elevation, are not gregarious in the sense of going in flocks, but throe or four 

 are often foiiml togetiier. The males are extremely jiugnacious, and Wilson states 

 that, having shot one, and while it was fluttering on the ground in ils death-throes, 

 another male rushed out of the jungle and attai-ked it with the greatest fury. Like 

 many of this genus, the male kaleege makes a singular drumming sound with its 

 wind's, either for the purpose of attracting the females, or in defiance of its rivals, 

 and a favorite method of capturing these hirds is to fasten a live male in some open 

 place, and imitate the drumming sound, when other males rush out to fight him, and 

 are easily shot or caught in the snares set for the purpose. The general habits and 



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Fig. 103. — Kuptocamiu metaiutttu. 



nidification of the kaleege pheasant are very similar to the silver pheasants and othera 

 of the same genus. 



The genus Lohiophasis contains but one known species, L. hulweri (the bird de- 

 scribed afterwards as T,. caManei-cintdatns, bcin'4 '" immature jilumage), and was 

 created for the elegant j)heasant obtained by Jlr. Ussher on the Lawns River in Borneo. 

 This bird in many ])articulars is peculiar, if not, indeed, unique. There arc two erect 

 horns of nude skin behind the ears, and two smaller ones at the base of the nostrils, 

 while two lobes liaiig from the angle of the bill. The ))Iumage is metallic of various 

 hues, and the tail is pure white, tlie feathers, thirty in number, are rather stiff, and the 

 shafts bare of webs towards their extremities. The tarsi .are sinirred. The female is 

 brownish chestnut, all tlu' feathers finely virmiculated with dark brown. The tail is 



