have been seen in its native wilds, has given any account of its habits and economy. It is a richly coloured 
species, and is rendered conspicuously different from all its congeners by the peculiar waxen yellow tint of 
its head and throat, and by the absence of any naked skin round the eyes. The scarlet tints which predo¬ 
minate in the plumage of many of the other species is replaced in the present one by orange, particularly 
on the breast and under surface. It must be a very beautiful object in its native woods; but with the 
departure of life the glory of its plumage disappears, for it is never to be seen in dried skins. 
When treating of this species in the ‘Planches Coloriees,’ Temminck states that science is indebted to 
MM. Diard and Reinwardt for the first knowledge of its existence; and Kuhl informs us that it inhabits 
woods and mountains, and subsists on insects. 
The sexes offer the usual differences, the female being less brilliant, and having the wings barred with 
yellow and brown instead of black and white. 
The figures represent the two sexes, of the size of life. The plant is the Hoy a ( Otostemma ) lacunosa . 
