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Rev. Hubert D. Astrey,



The female lacks the crest, although it is there in embryo.

Her head and neck are dull dark grey, her whole body is a

subdued moss green, and the general effect of the entire wing is

chestnut. As a matter of fact the shoulders are that colour, the

wing coverts are chestnut finely barred with black or dark brown,

and the flight feathers have the inner webs dull chestnut brown,

and the outer ones, light chestnut, spotted with brown. The

liair-like bristles which spring from above the nostrils are very

developed in the male, arching over the head and touching the

forepart of the crest; but less so in the female. It is said that



FEMALE OF R. ROULROUL.


the young birds have a mixture of grey plumes in the breast ;

that is, full grown young ones ; that the legs and red colour of

the bill are much paler and more yellow, while the crest on the

head is not nearly so long or developed.


The egg of this species is of a dull yellowish white.

Diam. 1-25 inch. Axis. 1.55 inch.


This beautiful bird inhabits Borneo and Sumatra, the

mountainous districts in Sarawak, etc.


Lieut. H. R. Kelham mentions one that had been snared

by natives during his expedition on the Perak River in January,

1877. [ Vide Malay Ornithology, Ibis , Vol. of 1S81].


He also writes : —“Though not rare, this bird is seldom

“ seen, being very shy, and on the approach of danger trusting to

“its legs rather than taking flight. All my specimens were

‘ snared in the neighbourhood of Kwala Kangsar.”



