^0 CLASS AVES. 



The HouppiFEREs. Tern. 



Have, with the naked cheeks, common to the whole 

 genus, the vertical tail, and arched coverts, proper 

 to the cock, certain feathers on the head, which can 

 be erected, and form a crest like that of the pea- 

 cock. The lower salient edge of the naked skin of 

 the cheeks supplies the place of wattles. There are 

 strong spurs to the tarsi. 



Ph. Ignitusy Sh. Nat. Mis. 321. Vieill. 

 Gal. 207. 



We know as yet but this one species, which be- 

 longs to the islands of Sunda ; as large as a cock ; 

 brilliant black, with a golden red rump ; the two upper 

 coverts of the tail, yellowish or whitish ; the sides, 

 spotted. The female is brown, finely striped with 

 blackish above, with dashes of white beneath ; she 

 also has a crest. 



Temminck describes the young as shining steel-black, 

 variegated with small white lines, and the tail red. 



The Gallus Macartnyii. Tem. Gal. ij. 663, and 

 t. 3, f. 10, a feather of the crest. See Macartney. 

 Emb. China, t. 13, cop. Nat. Misc. t. 321. It some- 

 times varies with white feathers in the tail. 



The Tragopan. Tragopan, Cuv. 



The male of this genus has the head more 

 strangely ornamented than any other bird. Almost 



