May 28, 2007

_Size_ is the point in which the bird fails to meet Marco”s description

Filed under: explorers — chris @ 10:44 am

_Size_ is the point in which the bird fails to meet Marco”s description.
In that respect the latter would rather apply to the _Crossoptilon
auritum_, which is nearly as big as a turkey, or to the glorious _Mnl
(Lopophorus impeyanus)_, but then that has no length of tail. The latter
seems to be the bird described by Aelian: ‘Magnificent cocks which have
the crest variegated and ornate like a crown of flowers, and the tail
feathers not curved like a cock”s, but broad and carried in a train like a
peacock”s; the feathers are partly golden, and partly azure or
emerald-coloured.’ (_Wood”s Birds_, 610, from which I have copied the
illustration; _Williams, M. K._ I. 261; _Ael. De Nat. An._ XVI. 2.) A
species of _Crossoptilon_ has recently been found by Captain Prjevalsky in
Alashan, the Egrigaia (as I believe) of next chapter, and one also by Abb?
Armand David at the Koko Nor.

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