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CHEEPER— CHENOMORPH^ 



sion Heteromeri of the Mesomyodi of Garrod and Forbes (see 

 Introduction). Mr. Sclater, who adds thereto Rupicola (Cock-of- 

 the-Rock) and an allied genus, which Garrod had put among his 

 Homceomeri, divides the Cotingidai into five subfamilies {Cat. B. Br. 



Ampelion. 



(After Swainson.) 



Pyroderus. 



Mus. xiv. pp. 326-405), Tityrinm with 3 genera, Lipauginx with 4, 

 Attilinee a,nd Eupicolina} each with 2, Cotinginx with 11, and Gymno- 

 derinse with 7 (see Bell-bird, partim, and Umbrella-bird). A 

 considerable number of these birds are remarkable for the extra- 

 ordinarily abnornal form of some of their Aving - quills, and 

 occasionally of their wing- coverts — a feature in the former case 

 observable also among the Pipridie, and, where existing, generally 

 confined to the male sex. Many of them also are brilliantly 

 coloured, and at least one, Xipholena pompadora — known as the 

 Pompadour ^ Chatterer, is of a hue scarcely to be seen in any other 

 bird. 



CHEEPER, the young of any kind of bird that cheeps or utters 

 a low plaintive note, especially used of game-birds, Grouse, 

 Partridges, or Pheasants; but also a name of the Tit Lark, 

 though mostly with a prefix, as Moss-Cheeper or the like. 



CHEER or CHIR, the Anglo-Indian name of Phasianus wallklii, 

 a fine but plainly-coloured Pheasant, a native of the Western 

 Himalayas. 



CHENOMORPH^, the first group of Prof. Huxley's Suborder 

 Desmognath^ {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 460), composed of the 

 Anatidx of most authors — the DuCKS and their allies, among which 

 he includes Palamedea (Screamer). 



^ So named by Edwards {Gleanings, ii. p. 275, pi. 341) after the celebrated 

 Madame de Pompadour, to whom it and other birds were being sent, when the 

 ship that bore them from Cayenne fell a prize to a British cruiser. 



