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roof of a savage's hut, uttering his crowing defiant note, while 
he strutted and threw up his tail like a rooster. I offered re¬ 
wards and encouraged my men to do their utmost to procure 
me specimens of this bird, and I was so far successful that I 
managed to obtain a pair; but in my trip to the interior it was 
in vain that I sought to get a view of it in its native haunts, 
and to make acquaintance with it in a state of nature. 
The female was brought to me on the 1st of April, soon after 
it was shot,—the heat of the weather compelling the hunters to 
skin it before they could reach me. It was, however, quite fresh 
enough to enable me to note the tints of its soft parts. “ Naked 
patch on cheek large and conspicuously red. Bill dark greyish 
brown. Legs a clear vermilion, the scale-joints and sole-pads, 
as well as the claws, being dingy yellowish brown. Tail rounded, 
and consisting of sixteen feathers." 
The fresh skin of the male arrived on the 11th April. My 
hunters had taken this bird alive; but it battered itself so, that 
they were obliged to kill it to save its feathers. The cheek-skin 
was of a bright crimson. Bill blackish grey, the apical half 
paling into ochreous brown colour. Legs bright pink-vermilion; 
soles a light dirty ochreous; toes the same, patched with blackish. 
To give my readers an idea of the plumage of this beautiful bird, 
I cannot do better than extract Mr. Gould's remarks on it from 
the ‘ Proceedings':— 
“ Male. Forehead black, gradually blending from the crown 
into the snowy-white lanceolate plumes which form a slight 
crest and continue in a narrow line down the nape of the neck. 
Back snowy white, offering a strong contrast to the narrow line 
with which it is bounded on each side, and the rich fiery chestnut 
of the scapularies; lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts intense velvety black, broadly margined with shining- 
steel or bluish black, these scale-like feathers gradually becoming 
of a larger size and of a more uniform black as they approach 
the tail-feathers. Wings blackish brown, the greater and lesser 
coverts fringed with green; two centre tail-feathers snowy white, 
the remainder black; the somewhat elongated feathers of the 
chest and flanks black, with shining blue reflexions; thighs and 
under tail-coverts dull black. Legs and spurs blood-red, except 
