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is chiefly greenish-yellow, with a scarlet, black-edged crest. Of 

 the peculiar Gymnoderinae, Haematoderus, which has elongated 

 head-, neck-, rump-, and breast-feathers, is crimson with brown 

 wings and tail, the female having brown on the back ; Querula is 

 dull black with a red collar of lengthened plumes ; Pyroderus is 

 black with crimson throat and fore-neck. Cephalopterus ornatus, 

 the Umbrella -bird, is entirely black, with a huge expanded 

 umbrella-like crest of bare-shafted incurved feathers, and a long 



Fig. 103. — Umbrella-bird. Cephalopterus ornatus. 



flattened and feathered gular wattle ; C. penduliger has this append- 

 age extraordinarily long and cylindrical ; C. glabricollis a bare 

 orange throat with a terminal tuft on the red outgrowth. Chas- 

 morhynchus niveus is white, with a spiral erectile process on the 

 forehead, thinly covered with white feathers : C. nudicollis has 

 the cheeks and throat naked and bristly, but lacks the excrescence; 

 C. variegatus is white, with a brown head, black wings, and bare 

 papillose throat ; G. tricarunculatus is chestnut, with a white 

 head bearing three caruncles, on the forehead and at the gape. 

 In this genus the females are green above and chiefly yellow 

 below. The bill may be orange or red in the Family, while Gym- 

 noderus alone has large white powder-down patches on the flanks. 

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