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warm, flexible body set off the fresh swelling plumage in a 
manner which no stuffed specimen can approach"^/^ Our tra- 
veller staid at the place ; and, with the help of his twelve 
hunters, he obtained twelve of these birds, having shot two 
himself. Two were brought to him alive : one of these was 
kept by the Indian who caught it, but it died in a few weeks 
after. He describes them as being snared at the spots visited 
by the males as playing assemblies. These places are worn 
quite smooth with the constant tread of their feet. Two or 
three males meet on a rock or at the root of a tree, and per- 
form a kind of dance. Mr. Wallace says that the females 
and young, which are of a plain reddish-brown, are never 
seen in these places ; but only full-grown fine-plumaged males 
are met with in these nuptial displays of this handsome 
South American bird-dandyf. 
In beautiful contrast with the South American Eupicola 
is the green Calyptomena, discovered by Sir Stamford Raffles 
in Java. It is closely allied to its orange cousin in form 
and habits, but has not the head-feathers disposed like a fan. 
The only known species is found in Java, and perhaps other 
islands of the Indian Archipelago. It is described and 
* Alfred A. V\^allace : ' Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro/ p. 222. 
t Ibid. 227. 
