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but although we also see a back claw in Doctor Badenach's figure, 

 referred to in the Phil. Trans, in his description it was expressly 

 mentioned to the contrary.* Sonnerat's bird is figured, very properly, 

 without the hind claw, which was the case with one shewn alive at 

 Exeter Change, in London, some years since ; and as it is generally 

 affirmed that this Species wants the back claw, it must have surely 

 been for want of observation, that the painters, in the instances above 

 mentioned, should have allowed one. 



A fine figure of the male is among the drawings of Sir John 

 Anstruther ; length eleven inches. On the forehead are twelve or 

 fourteen long bristles, standing erect, and tending backwards ; the 

 flat crest is, for one-fourth from the base, very thick set; the rest of 

 the length loose webbed, and the whole, when erect, tends forwards 

 over the bill ; the wings are rufous ; quills rufous yellow ; legs red, 

 the hind claw wanting. 



Found in Bengal ; the specimen, from which the drawing was 

 made, brought from the Chittagong Hills, under the name of Borey. 

 This is like the Rouloul of Sonnerat, but the tail, in the engraving 

 of the latter, is certainly too long. Other drawings, in the same 

 collection, are said to have come from Bencoolen, where it is called 

 Benioul ; from whence one was brought alive to Calcutta, and is most 

 like in colour to my engraving, and carrying the tail bent downwards 

 in the manner of a Partridge or Quail. Specimens of both sexes 

 were presented to me by Sir Jos. Banks, which came from Sumatra, 

 where it is called Benial. All we can learn of its manners is, that 

 both male and female have a kind of whistling note, or more like 

 that of a young Chicken,t ; it makes the nest among grass and reeds, 

 and the young birds are downy and black ; fond of being near the 

 water, and will readily eat rice put into it. M. Temminck has made 

 a Genus of these two birds, which he very properly also considers 

 as male and female, under the name of Cryptonyx. 



* Pedes tridactyli, fissi, incarnati, subnodosi : digitus posticus reliquis crassior, brevior, 

 truncatusque. — Vol. lxii. p. 2. pi. 1. f Dr. Buchanan. 



