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ROYAL GREAT-CREST. 



Megalophus regius, SWAINS. 



PL>TE XV. 



Crest very large fan-shaped, bright rufous-red, with black 

 tips; body above brown ; tail and under plumage fulvous 

 or ferrugineous ; chin paler. 



Todus regius, Aiud. Le Roi des Gobe-mouches, Bujfon* PL 

 Enl. 289. Megalophus regius, Birds of Brazil^ PI. 51, 52. 



UNTIL very lately, this lare and remarkable bird 

 was only known to the ornithologists of the present 

 day by the figure and description of Buffon, who 

 mentions it as being found, although very rarely, in 

 Cayenne. Dr. Shaw, indeed, alludes to another 

 account, of what he considers to be the same bird, in 

 a little known German work, entitled Naturfor- 

 scher ; but this we have never seen. Three or four 

 years ago, however, several specimens of this spe- 

 cies came to England, through the hands, as we 

 were informed, of the French dealers, but from what 

 precise locality appears uncertain. One of these, 

 obligingly lent to us by Mr. Gould of the Zoologi- 

 cal Society, enabled us to delineate the species in 

 two different attitudes in the Birds of Brazil, and 

 the annexed figure was drawn from the same specK 



