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as forming a sort of halo, in the center of which the head 

 " looks like a little emerald sun with its rays formed by 



Fig. 48. Lophornls ornatus, male and female (from Brehrn). 



the two plumes."* In another most beautiful species the 

 head is bald ' ' and of a rich cobalt blue, crossed by several 

 lines of black velvety feathers. "\ 



*Q:iotel frnni M. de Lafre^naye in "Annals and Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist,," voi. xiii, 1854. p. 157: see also Mr. Wallace's much fuller 

 account in vol. xx, 1857, p. 412, and in his "Malay Archipelago " 



f Wallace, " The Malay Archipelago," vol. ii, 1869, p. 405. 



