32 The Nesting of the Lesser Gi cij- Headed Guan. 
the shells. They are thickly elothed with down, a mixture of 
black, chestnut, and yrey; a band above the base of the hcak, 
black; a broad irregular stripe of pale grey passes over each 
eye to the nape, and joins on forehead over black frontal band; 
crown, with two black stripes, joining in front and enclosing a 
chestnut patch in the centre; uj^per surface ruddy chestnut 
slightly mottled with black, and with two indistinct grey 
stripes on the back; sides of face, cliin and throat, grey, mot- 
tled with black; upper part of chest and fore-neck ch(^stnut; 
remainder of underparts pure white; wing's brownisli black, 
barred with chestnut; beak, flesh colour at base, remainder 
black with pure white tip; feet, pink. The throat is not naked 
as in the adult. 
For some reason the cock became greatly excited soon 
after the young ones hatched, and threw two oi' them into 
the air. I removed him to another compartment. I don't 
suppose he really intended to injure them, as he was after - 
ivards calling to them with food in his beak and looking (piite 
miserable, but one oi the young ones was found dead the 
next morning, and I attribute its death to his rough treatment. 
It fortunately happened about the time the j-oung 
hatched, that the nights were excejitionally warm and fine, 
or through an oversight I might have lost them all. I had 
imagined that the hen would brood the chicks on the ground at 
night, but at dusk in the evening of the day they were hatclicd 
I heard her calling to them from some branches fixed high in 
the shelter. No doubt the cliicks had tried to reach her, but 
as there were no lower branches to enable them to ascend so 
high, they had perched, and were asleep, each in a separate 
bush, in the open flight. I afterwards arranged convenient 
bi'anches, as steps to tlie top of the shelter, and the next nigh;t 
the young ones slept close to the body of the hen. 
All the food was taken from the beak of the hen, and 
consisted of finely chopped fruit, boiled rice, lettuce, house- 
flies, mealworms, blow-tly pupae, and insectile food; the live- 
food was given to the young direct, but the fruit and green 
food was swallowed and afterwards regurgitated. 
From the fii'st the young ones were very active among 
the branches, and spent a lot of their time climbing about in 
the low bushes. At the end of the first week they had not 
