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LONG-TAILED POL PPLECTRON. 
Polyplectron chalourum, — Temminck. 
PLATE VII. 
Eperonnier clialcure, Polyplectron chalcurum, Temminck, 
Planches Colonies, 519. 
This bird differs from its congeners in wanting the 
oeellated spots on the various parts of the plumage, 
which is also entirely of a more sombre shade, and 
in the form of the tail, which becomes lengthened 
and runs into the form of that of Argus. Temminck 
is the only ornithologist who has described and figur- 
ed it, and the specimen in the Parisian Museum, 
which served for the copy, he tells us, was unique. 
The head, neck, breast, belly, and wings, are of an 
umber brown ; the hack, greater coverts, and scapu- 
lars are of a reddish umber, having numerous waves 
or crosses of black ; the tail, as we mentioned, is 
much longer than in any of the others, and has not 
the two ranges, as it were, of feathers, is brown, 
with green and violet reflections, and is mottled over 
with irregular spots of black. Each tarsus is armed 
with two sharp spurs. The total length of the spe- 
