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said to be of an olive-colour ; the quills dusky, and 

 the tail yellow, as in the male, with the middle 

 feathers black; the head is crested, and the eyes 

 in both sexes are of a bright blue. 



This species seems to have been first described 

 by Dr. Pallas. Nothing seems to be known of its 

 particular history, except that it feeds on insects 

 and fruits, and that it has a strong scent resem- 

 bling Castor. If it resembles the majority of this 

 genus in its manner of building, it may, perhaps, 

 be the fabricator of the very large hanging nest 

 described by Grew in his account of the Museum 

 of the Royal Society. " It is," says Grew, " above 

 three quarters of a yard long, besides part of it 

 broken off ; where broadest, near a foot over, and 

 almost flat; narrowed from the bottom all the way 

 to the top: it hath two apertures; above, about a 

 foot from the top of the entire nest, one larger 

 and longer; below, i. e. a foot above the bottom, 

 another, perfectly round, and three inches over : it 

 consisteth of the parts of plants somewhat loosely 

 woven together." 



