MACARTNIAN COCK. 



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with an elegant crest, composed of singularly con- 

 structed feathers, which at their bases are destitute 

 of webs, and towards their extremities clothed 

 with a number of disunited barbs ; the whole 

 feather is similar to a fan with a long handle : the 

 face and sides of the head, much beyond the eyes, 

 covered with a rufous-violet skin, hanging down 

 beneath the sides of the head and the throat, like 

 a small wattle : the crest and top of the head, the 

 neck, the top of the back, the breast, and the belly, 

 are black, with green reflections : the feathers on 

 the sides of the body are of a brilliant red towards 

 their tips : the wing-coverts are black, tipped with 

 a band of green-gold : the long feathers of the 

 rump are of a fiery golden hue, reflecting rich 

 tints of molten copper, purple and violet; the 

 upper tail-coverts are similar: the four middle 

 tail-feathers are red, the rest black: the beak 

 yellow-ochre : the feet grey : the claws and spurs 

 brown : it sometimes varies in having the whole of 

 the plumage more violet, the feathers on the sides 

 of the body tipped with white, and the four middle 

 tail-feathers of the latter colour. 



The female is less than the male : the naked 

 skin round the eyes is not so much wrinkled as in 

 him : the crest is also different, the feathers being 

 webbed their whole length, but larger at their 

 tips than at the base ; this, and also the upper 

 part of the head, the hinder part of the neck, and 

 the top of the back, are of a chesnut-brown ; the 

 rest of the back, the wings, the rump, and the tail, 

 are of a deeper colour, varied with delicate black 



