the edges of the inner webs showing alternately pale rufous and dark brown, the two central feathers crossing in a graceful 
curve near the extremity and showing a narrow inner web, the rest covered with long hair-like filaments, giving the whole a 
graceful and beautiful appearance, unequalled by any other known form; bare space of the eye, lead color; legs and feet, 
black; irides, dark brown. 
Length about 3 feet; wing about 11.30; tail about 25; tarsus 4.40; bill 1.25; mid. toe and claw 3. 
The female differs from the male in wanting the ornamental tail, the feathers being webbed in the usual manner and 
shorter. The bare space around the eye is also somewhat smaller, and the general plumage duller. 
