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Genus EUPLOCOMUS, — Temminck. 
This genus was formed by M. Temminck, for 
tbe reception of a few birds differing in form and 
structure from the cocks and pheasants, but still ap- 
pearing closely allied to both ; while its alliance to 
Lophophorus is also so great, that the founder of that 
genus has transferred one described by himself to the 
present little group. The form of the tail is one 
of the principal distinctions, being often forked, in all 
cases very ample ; the feathers broad, and pointed. 
The first we shall notice is 
