a few paler variegations. The legs and feet in this 
species are uncommonly large and strong, and the 
two principal or longest tail-feathers exhibit a very 
unusual appearance, seeming as if notched into se¬ 
veral segments or divisions on the wider part of the 
web ; which appearance, when accurately surveyed, 
is found to be merely owing to the extreme delicacy 
of the fibres, which is so great as to cause a deceptive 
transparency in that part of the feather. The size 
of this species is nearly equal to that of a common 
pheasant, and the length, from the tip of the beak 
to the ends of the long tail-feathers above-mentioned 
is nearly four feet. 
The manners of this bird are singular. At the 
early part of the morning it begins singing, having- 
fas is reported,) a very fine natural note ; and, gra¬ 
dually ascending some rocky eminence, scratches up 
the ground in the manner of some of the Pheasant 
tribe, elevating its tail, and at intervals imitating 
the notes of every other bird within hearing ; and 
after having continued this exercise for about two 
hours, again descends into the vallies or lower 
grounds. 
A very beautiful figure of this bird has been lately 
published byMons. Viellot, in his splendid work on 
the Paradisese, &c. under the name of Le Parkinson, 
in honour of John Parkinson, esq. of the Leverian 
Museum, through whose means Moiis. Viellot re¬ 
ceived a most elegant drawing of the bird, by the 
accurate 
