SERICULUS CHRYSOCEPHALUS. 



low feathers begin to appear on the head and neck ; but the rest of the 

 plumage is evidently immature. Plate XVIII. shows the transition of the 

 male from the young plumage, and was taken from a beautiful and inte- 

 resting specimen very obligingly lent to us by Mr Wilson, Preserver of 

 Objects of Natural History to the University of Edinburgh. 



Fig. a, on Plate XX. is a magnified representation of one of the soft 

 short feathers on the head of the adult male. 



