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plumage. Three hundred men, according to Cortes, 

 were employed to take care of these birds, besides 

 physicians who prescribed for them. Of the three 

 hundred attendants, some procured the food ; others 

 distributed it; others took care of the eggs at the 

 time of incubation; whilst others at the proper time 

 picked off portions of the plumage (or picked up the 

 shed plumes), for the King was not only delighted by 

 the sight of so many beautiful birds, but was very 

 careful of their plumes for use in the arts for which 

 they were needed." Adequate description of the bird 

 is almost impossible. It has a rounded plume on the 

 head, cascades of feathers falling from the back over 

 the shoulders, other plumes falling over the tail a yard 

 long, and a most elegant contour. The colour of the 

 whole of the upper surface and plumes is a most 

 resplendent golden green, that of the breast and 

 under parts crimson scarlet. Such is the national 

 emblem of Guatemala. 



Our Indian and Far Eastern states are not at all 

 behind the rest of Great Britain in their desire to 

 commemorate famous natural commodities of one 

 kind or another, but the picturesque and the terrible 

 play a part in these devices. Pahang takes for its 

 representative beast a tiger, either roaming or slinking 

 through the jungle. North Borneo shows the native 

 rusa deer, an inhabitant of its impenetrable jungles of 

 swamp grass. The Seychelles " sport " their famous 

 tortoise under the usual cocoa-nut palm, and the 

 Federated Malay States a tiger bounding from the 

 jungle. The Rajah of Travancore emblazons a device 



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