have been seen in its native wilds, has given any account of its habits and economy. It is a richly coloured

species, and is rendered conspicuously different from all its congeners by the peculiar waxen yellow tint of

its head and throat, and by the absence of any naked skin round the eyes. The scarlet tints which predo-

minate in the plumage of many of the other species is replaced in the present one by orange, particularly

on the breast and under surface. It must be a very beautiful object in its native woods; but with the

departure of life the glory of its plumage disappears, for it is never to be seen in dried skins.
When treating of this species in the ‘ Planches Coloriées,’ Temminck states that science is indebted to
MM. Diard and Reinwardt for the first knowledge of its existence; and Kuhl informs us that it inhabits

woods and mountains, and subsists on insects.
The sexes offer the usual differences, the female being less brilliant, and having the wings barred with
yellow and brown instead of black and white.

The figures represent the two sexes, of the size of life. The plant is the Hoya (Ofostemma) lacunosa.

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