LOPHOPHORUS NIGELLI, (nobis). 

 MacneiVs Lopkophorus. 



PLATE LXXVI. 



L. capite, genis, nucha, lateribusque colli griseis ; gula, linea e naribus ad oculos stri- 

 gaque longitudinal! infra rotundata, ab oculis in lateribus colli albis ; pectore, 

 superiori dorsi brunnescentibus, maculis nigris, griseis albisque sparsis ; dorso, alis 

 caudaque brunnescente-albidis, plumis, his, medio nigro pulcherrime sparsis, hac, 

 grisea variegata ; abdomine brunnescente-albido nigro griseoque sparso, plumis 

 hypochondriciis nigro marginatis ; remigibus albis apicibus griseis. 



~We are indebted to James Wilson, Esq. a gentleman already well known 

 to naturalists as the author of very elegant and admirably conducted Il- 

 lustrations of Zoology, for this new and important addition to Ornithology, 

 and whose zeal in the cause of nature is only equalled by his willing libe- 

 rality in communicating information. Mr Wilson has also furnished us 

 with the notes which accompanied the bird, and with a very detailed de- 

 scription of this individual, and the general habits of the species, and as 

 these contain more information than we could otherwise have given, we 

 shall transcribe them, without further preface, nearly as received. It has 

 been thought only a just tribute that our present species should bear the 

 name of the individual to whose care we are indebted for its first disco- 

 very. 



" The name Lopkophorus applies with etymological accuracy only to 

 such species as are furnished with a crest ; and the possession of that ap- 

 pendage not being an influential or regulating character, the designation 

 is so far objectionable, inasmuch as species may exist wanting the crest 

 which ought nevertheless to be assigned to the genus Lopkophorus, but to 

 which, in the event supposed, the name could not be applied. The In- 

 dian name Monaul, latinized as the generic term by M. Vieillot, belongs 

 to a beautiful bird of this genus, native to the mountains of Hindostan, 

 where the male is called the " Bird of Gold," on account of the radiant 



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