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For the above description I am indebted to the late Mr. Samuel 

 Daniell, who met with complete specimens of both sexes, brought 

 from the Malay Coast. Sir T. S. Raffles, however, says that the 

 female is only brown and black, no white feathers in the tail, and 

 the flame-coloured patch on the back wanting. — Found in Sumatra, 

 and there called Tugang. 



That figured in the Embassy to China is a good representation, 

 but the tail is somewhat imperfect. Sir George Staunton met with 

 it in a Menagerie, at Batavia; it differed, too, from the above de- 

 scribed, in having the fiery zone on the lower part of the back 

 continued wholly round the belly, but appearing there without the 

 brilliancy seen on the upper parts. It also varies in respect to the 

 bright orange encircling the body, or not ; as may be observed in 

 various drawings, especially in those I was favoured with by General 

 Hardvvicke. It is probable, therefore, that this distinction may arise 

 from age, or at least is not a permanent one. 



A. — In this the bill is dusky brown, not greatly curved ; nostrils 

 prominent; round the eye bare and blue; from the middle of the 

 crown a rounded tuft of black feathers, standing nearly erect; general 

 colour of the plumage deep black ; lower half of the back and rump 

 only deep chestnut ; tail bent downwards and shaped as in the last 

 described, some of the longer feathers white ; of the others black, 

 and all of them rounded at the ends; feathers of the sides, over the 

 thighs, sharp-pointed, and margined with white; legs reddish on the 

 fore part, and pale behind, with a large, pale spur, but short, and 

 less formidable than in the first described. 



Inhabits India. — From the drawings of Lord Mountnorris. 



I observe in this bird, that the bare space round the eyes does not 

 extend over the nostrils, as in the Fire-backed, nor does it elongate 



TOl. VIII. B B 



