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SERILOPHUS ; 



it is represented by that beautiful and interesting 

 bird, the Serilophus lunatus, recently discovered near 

 Rangoon, where several of them were shot by Major 

 Godfrey. Here, again, although the information 

 on its manners and habits is very concise, it is pe- 

 culiarly applicable to our purpose. Major Godfrey 

 observes, u that it inhabits the thickest jungles, 

 and that its food was found, upon minute investi- 

 gation, to consist entirely of berries and fruits*." 

 The generic and typical peculiarities of this bird are 

 peculiarly interesting. The first aspect, notwith- 

 standing many dissimilarities, reminds the ornitho- 

 logist of the true chatterers (Bombycilla), the 

 plumage having the same silky gloss, and the head 

 being surmounted, as in those birds, with a con- 

 spicuous, pointed, and pendant crest. The wings 

 are very remarkable, uniting the two chief charac- 

 ters of the rasorial and of the fissirostral structure 

 the first is manifested in the suddenly attenuated 

 and pointed ends of the primary quills, almost pre- 

 cisely similar to those of some species of Fluvicola ; 

 * Zool. Trans, i. 177. 



