250 IMPEYAN MONAUL. 



THE magnificent species that is now about to 

 be described is thus commemorated by Dr. La- 

 tham : " larger thai* a dunghill fowl : length two 

 feet i beak brown, two inches long : round the eye 

 bare, and of a greenish blue : on the head is an 

 erect crest, consisting of seventeen or eighteen 

 feathers * of different sizes, the longest three 

 inches and a half in length ; they consist of little 

 more than shafts, except at the end, where they 

 are oval, with a spear-shaped point : the feathers 

 of the neck are long and loose, not unlike those of 

 a Cock ; those of the head and throat are green- 

 bronze ; of the middle of the neck purple, with a 

 copper gloss, and the lower part of it a yellow 

 copper bronze ; all of them exceedingly brilliant, 

 and changeable in different reflections of light : 

 the back and wing-coverts are rich purple, tipped 

 with green-bronze : prime quills black : the under 

 parts of the body, from chin to vent, are dull 

 black, with here and there a greenish gloss : 

 thighs the same : the legs feathered below the 

 knees : tail brownish cinnamon-colour, with the 

 end dusky, and rounded in shape; the feathers 

 fourteen in number : legs stout, rough, and scaly ; 

 the colour a dark brown : toes long ; between 

 them at the base a slight membrane : at the back 

 part of the legs a thick short spur. 



" The female is smaller than the male, and of a 

 less elegant shape : the length twenty-one inches : 



* Temminck says thirteen, but most probably his specimen 

 was injured. 



