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ROYAL GREAT-CREST. 
Megalopkus regius , Swains. 
PLATE XV. 
Crest very large, fan-shaped, bright rufous-red, with black 
tips ; body above brown ; tail and under plumage fulvous 
or ferrugineous ; chin paler. 
Todus regius, Auct . — Le Roi des Gobe-mouches, Buffon s PI. 
Enl. 289. — Megalophus regius. Birds of Brazil, PI. 51, 52. 
Until very lately, this rare and remarkable bird 
was only known to the ornithologists of the present 
day by the figure and description of Buffon, who 
mentions it as being found, although very rarely, in 
Cayenne. Dr. Shaw, indeed, alludes to another 
account, of what he considers to be the same bird, in 
a little known German work, entitled Naturfor- 
sclier ; but this we have never seen. Three or four 
years ago, however, several specimens of this spe- 
cies came to England, through the hands, as we 
were informed, of the French dealers, but from what 
precise locality appears uncertain. One of these, 
obligingly lent to us by Mr. Gould of the Zoologi- 
cal Society, enabled us to delineate the species in 
two different attitudes in the Birds of Brazil , and 
the annexed figure was drawn from the same speci- 
men. 
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