. Illustrations of ornithology . ger than those in the centre. The tarsi and feet are deep blackish-brown. We have not seen the female ; but from the account given by Mr Vi-gors and Dr Horsfield in the Linnean Transactions, it appears to re-semble nearly the young of the first year. The young male, however, isoften in different states of change, and the real characters of it are render-ed more unstable. On Plate XX. we have given what we consider to be the young male ofthe first year, almost before any change has taken place: a very few yel- SERICULUS CHRYSOCEPHALUS. low feathers begin to appe
. Illustrations of ornithology . ger than those in the centre. The tarsi and feet are deep blackish-brown. We have not seen the female ; but from the account given by Mr Vi-gors and Dr Horsfield in the Linnean Transactions, it appears to re-semble nearly the young of the first year. The young male, however, isoften in different states of change, and the real characters of it are render-ed more unstable. On Plate XX. we have given what we consider to be the young male ofthe first year, almost before any change has taken place: a very few yel- SERICULUS CHRYSOCEPHALUS. low feathers begin to appear on the head and neck ; but the rest of theplumage is evidently immature. Plate XVIII. shows the transition of themale from the young plumage, and was taken from a beautiful and inte-resting specimen very obligingly lent to us by Mr Wilson, Preserver ofObjects of Natural History to the University of Edinburgh. Fig. a, on Plate XX. is a magnified representation of one of the softshort feathers on the head of the adult male. ■Ay/lS7//S 77^///////S, J is ■>\
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