Avts. 569 



Lopkophorus Ciivieri.—Ciwiet's Lophoplioriis. Plate xxxix*. fig. 7. Iridps- 

 cent-biack, with violet reflections, the feathers with zi^'zag gray lines ; 

 rump aud tail-coverts with a broad white zone ; head surmounted by a crest 

 of long thinly-webOed plumes ; cheeks naked. Eighteen inches long. In. 

 habits India. 



Genus 5.~VOL,YFhECTKO'S.—Tem?miic!c. 



Generic Character. — Bill of medium size, slender, straight, and conipress- 

 Gd ; upper mandible bent near the point ; nostrils lateral, situated iu the 

 middle of the bill, partly covered by a naked membrane ; orbits and cheeks 

 iiaked ; legs slender; tarsns long; three anterior toes united by mem- 

 branes; hallux elevated, above which are two or more conical spurs ; tail 

 long, rounded. 



Poli/plectron chinquis — The Argus Polyplectron. Plate xxxix*. fig. 3. Ash- 

 cciloured, with narrow dusky striae, and spotted with white above; wings 

 covered with numerous cobalt-blue eye-like spots; secondaries with glossy 

 blue spots ; under parts gray, with undulated dusky lines ; tail-coverts with 

 two shining green spots near their tips, and below which are crescent- 

 shaped spots, and margined with black. Twenty-three inches long. Inlia- 

 bits China. 



Genus Q, MELEAGRIS.— Z,iV'K<Eus. 



Generic Character. — Bill short, thick, and covered with a naked skin at 

 the base ; head and neck covered by a naked tuberculated skin ; base of the 

 upper mandible provided with a Heshy caruncle ; throat with a longitudinal, 

 pendulous, and caruuculated wattle ; tarsus of the male with a slender obtuse 

 spur ; wings short, rounded, and concave, the fourth and fifth quill the long, 

 est ; tail consisting of eighteen feathers, capable of being expanded and ele- 

 vated into a fan-shape. 



Meleagris gallopavo. — Tlie Common Turkey. Plate xxxix. fig. 3. De- 

 scribed, vol. iii. p. 118. 



Genus "i.—A'B.GVS.—Temminck. 



Generic Character.—'&M the length of the head, compressed, straight, 

 and naked at the base ; upper mandible arcuated, and bent towards the tip ; 

 nostrils lateral, situated near the middle of the bill, partly closed by a mem- 

 brane ; head, cheeks, and neck, naked ; legs slender, the tarsus smooth ; 

 fore toes united by membranes ; hiUux jointed on the tarsus ; tail long, con- 

 sisting of twelve feathers, ascending, compressed, the two middle feathers 

 long, tapering. 



Argus gigunteus. — The Gigantic Argus. Plate xx.xi.K**. fig. 1. Back and 

 tail-coverts yellow fawn-colour, with ferruginous spots; secondaries with 

 numerous eye-like spots ; webs of the quills blue ; tail lilackish.brown, spot- 

 ted with white ; lower parts of the neck and under part of the body reddisi/ 

 brown. Five feet three inches long. Inhabits Surinam. 



Genus 8 — tiVMlDA.—Linnaus. 



Generic Character. — Bill short, thick, arcuated, with a warted mem- 

 l.nine at its base, and a carunculated wattle suspended under the lower 

 mandible ; nostrils placed in the core, divided by a cartilage v liead naked in 

 eoiiie species, clothed with feathers in others ; the crown with a callous 



