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blood-red ; back dull green, passing into greenish yellow on the rump ; 

 shoulders and upper part of the wings dull wax-yellow ; primaries 

 olive-brown, with small elongated marks of buif on their external 

 margins ; internal webs of the greater coverts and primaries crossed 

 with distinct bars of greyish white ; throat and cheeks grey ; under 

 parts of the shoulders and axillaries alternately barred with greenish 

 white and blackish brown ; chest and under surface sordid green. 



Total length, 10^ inches; bill, 1|^ ; wing, If; tail, 5^; tarsi, f. 



Remark. — The species to which this bird is most nearly allied is 

 the Gecinus occipitalis of the Himalayas, from which however it is 

 conspicuously different. I have adopted its Chinese name for a 

 specific appellation. 



EUPLOCAMUS SWINHOII, Gould. 



Male : forehead black, gradually blending into the snowy-white 

 lanceolate plumes which form a slight crest, and continue in a 

 narrow line down the nape of the neck ; back snowy white, offering a 

 strong contrast to the narrow black line with which it is bounded 

 on each side, and the rich fiery chestnut of the scapularies ; lower 

 part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts intense velvety black, 

 broadly margined with shining steel or bluish black, these scale- 

 like feathers gradually becoming of a larger size and of a more uniform 

 black as they approach the tail-feathers ; wings blackish brown ; the 

 greater and lesser coverts fringed with green ; two centre tail-feathers 

 snow-white, the remainder black ; the somewhat elongated feathers 

 of the chest and flanks black, with shining blue reflexions ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts dull black ; legs and spurs blood-red, except 

 the tips of the latter, which are brown ; sides of the face mottled to 

 an extent seldom seen even among Gallinaceous birds ; in front this 

 appearance extends to the nostrils, while posteriorly it terminates in 

 a point near the occiput; a large lappet hangs down over each cheek, 

 and a more pointed one rises, in the form of a horn, high above the 

 crown, the whole being of the finest red, and covered with papillae, 

 as in the Gennceus nychthemerus ; bill light horn-colour. 



Total length, 28 inches; bill, 1^ ; wing, 9 ; tail, 17; tarsi, 4. 



Female : this sex offers a strong contrast to the male, from there 

 being no appearance of a crest in any specimen I have seen, and in 

 the entire plumage being reddish or orange-brown, particularly the 

 under surface ; when examined in detail, however, many different 

 but harmonizing tints are seen on the various parts of the body : on 

 the back of the neck, mantle, scapularies, and lesser wing-coverts, the 

 freckled brown feathers have lanceolate or spearhead-shaped mark- 

 ings surrounded with black down their centres, while the rump and 

 upper tail- coverts are more uniformly and more finely freckled with 

 orange and dark brown ; primaries alternately barred on both surfaces 

 with chestnut and dark brown ; secondaries dark brown, conspicuously 

 barred with ochre-yellow ; throat brownish grey ; chest orange- 

 brown, each feather with two crescentic markings of dark brown ; 

 centre of the abdomen and thighs orange-brown, slightly freckled 

 with darker brown ; two centre tail-feathers dark brown, obscurely 



