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The Descent of Man.
Part II.

most beautiful species the head is bald, "and of a rich cobalt blue, crossed by several lines of black velvety feathers."[1]

Fig. 47.
Pardisea Papuana (T. W. Wood)



    in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. xiii. 1854, p. 157: see also Mr. Wallace's much fuller account in vol. xx. 1857, p. 412, and in his 'Malay Archipelago.'

  1. Wallace, 'The Malay Archipelago,' vol. ii. 1869, p. 405.