GIGANTIC ARGUS. 



the beak as long or longer than the head, com- 

 pressed, straight, naked at its base; the upper 

 mandible arched, and curved towards its extremity: 

 the nostrils are lateral, placed in the middle of the 

 upper jaw, and half closed by a membrane : the 

 cheeks and neck naked : the feet with the toes 

 united at their base by a slight membrane : the 

 tarsi spurless : the tail ascending, compressed into 

 two planes, and composed of twelve feathers ; the 

 two middle ones of the male very long : the first 

 quill is extremely short. 



The general habits of the bird are noticed in 

 the following pages. 



GIGANTIC ARGUS. 

 (Argus giganteus.) 



AR. collo inferiore corporeque sublus fusco-rujis nigro-lineatis ; 



dorso tectricibusque caudac Jlavcscentibus, maculis rotundatis 



Juscis ; pennarum tecundarium ocellatis plurimis ; remigum 



rachis c&ruleis ; caudd jusco-nigra, albo punctilio.. (Femina, 



Jiisco-nigrd) Jlavo Jfuscoque maculata, remigum rachis cccrnleo- 



nigris ; maculis ocellatis in pennis secundariis nidlis.) 



Argus with the lower part of the neck and the body beneath 

 red-brown, striped with black ; the back and tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish, spotted with rounded brown spots ; the secondary 

 feathers with many ocelli ; the webs of the quills blue ; the 

 tail brown-black, spotted with white. (Female brown-black, 

 spotted with yellow and brown j the webs of the quills blue- 

 black, and the secondary feathers without spots. ) 



