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frontier, either in the Myitkyina or the 

 Bhamo District. 



The male of this species is a wonderful 

 creature, and requires but little description. 

 The crown of the head is glossy green, 

 mottled with red, and the long pointed 

 crest is of a bright chestnut-red. A large 

 mantle or cape of broad feathers springs 

 from the back of the head, under the 

 crest, and covers the sides and back of 

 the neck. These feathers are white, 

 margined with black at the ends, and the 

 longer feathers are quite five inches in 

 length. The back and scapulars are deep 

 bronze, all the feathers with a black margin. 

 The primaries are pale brown margined 

 with white ; the outer secondaries black ; 

 the inner secondaries and all the upper 

 wing- co verts purple. The rump and the 

 upper tail-coverts are buff, the bases of all 

 the feathers black but more or less con- 

 cealed ; the tail-coverts are tipped with 

 orange-red. The tail-feathers vary from 

 white to hair-brown, and are much barred 

 in various ways with black. Four feathers 

 of the tail-coverts on each side are much 

 lengthened and might be mistaken for 

 lateral tail-feathers. They are tipped, for 

 a distance varying from one to three inches 

 with orange-red. The chest is bronze- 



