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It is a birdof magnificent plumage, with crimson feathers on the body,and blue wings, both of gorgeous hue, and no other colour excepta little black. Hursthouse, `New Zealand,' p. Humpy, n. It is called here `turning a horse inside out.

Gould's enumeration of the species is given in quotation. Mudie, `Felonry of New South Wales,' p. 59: They'll find it not quite so `welly good' As their fossicking freak at the Buckland. The swamp-pheasant has not the family weakness ofthe cuckoo, for it does not lay its eggs in the nests of otherbirds.