Volume 5, Plate XX / Ornithology (Birds)

Macartney Cock (Female)

Euplocomus ignitus

About two feet long, this beautiful cock has bluish-purple skin spreading behind the eyes and an upright crest of naked-shafted feathers expanding into slender barbs. Head, neck, breast, and upper back are deep black with steel-blue reflections, the middle of the back flame-orange and the rump brilliant bluish-green, the forked tail white-centred and legs vermilion, the smaller female rich cinnamon-brown and inhabiting Sumatra.