female was unknown, but Mr. Hugh Low obtained a bird of this sex on the Mengalong 
river, opposite the island of Labuan, and I am now enabled to give a representation of 
the female from a specimen in the collection of the British Museum. In the * Birds of 
Asia,’ Mr. Gould calls attention to the white exhibited on the rump of the figures in my 
plate of the male, and says his specimens have none of it. This white, as I have pointed 
out in my description, comes from the tips of the feathers situated under the red ones, 
which show beyond these last. It is very conspicuous in a specimen before me 
collected by Mr. Adams on the Sapagaya river, but shows more on either side than as a 
bar across the rump. The specimen, however, from which the figures in my original 
plate were drawn, and which 1 have lately examined in the Academy of Natural Sciences 
in Philadelphia, exhibits these white tips in a bar across the rump as depicted. 
It is to be regretted that we are unable to give any account of the habits of this 
beautiful bird, the few occasions when it has been seen in its haunts affording no 
opportunity for careful observation of its mode of life. 
The two figures on the Plate represent the adult male and female, drawn from specimens 
in the British Museum. 
