AVES. 
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Rupicola elegans. —The Elegant Rupicola, or Hoopoe Hen. 
Plate LI. fig-. 8. 
Saffron-orange, quills brown, with a white bar across them ; 
upper coverts erect and vaulted; tail fan-shaped, dusky, bordered 
with dull yellow; head surmounted by a semicircular erect crest, 
edged with lemon-yellow, within which is a fillet of lilac-colour; 
legs lemon-yellow. Ten inches long. Inhabits South America. 
Genus 21.—PHIBALURA. — Vieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill very short, somewhat conical, and 
arcuated above, sides dilated; upper mandible notched at the 
point, under mandible straight; with a small nasal furrow; nos¬ 
trils a little above the base, covered by a membrane, and sur¬ 
rounded by a narrow elevated edge; first and second quills 
longest; tail long, slender, and forked; tarsus about the same 
length as the middle toe. 
Phibalura jiavirostris. —The Yellow-Billed Phibalura. 
Plate XLII. fig. 3. 
Back sulphur-yellow, transversely barred with black; abdo¬ 
men and breast white, barred with sulphur-yellow, and longi¬ 
tudinal lines of black; crissum yellow; head having a black crest, 
with crimson spots; ophthalmic region black; gula yellow; collum 
white, with transverse black bars ; tail feathers olive-green at 
the base, and black at the tips, much forked. Eight inches 
long. Inhabits Brazil. 
Genus 22. —PIPRA_ Linnaeus. 
Generic Character. —Bill trigonal, short, expanded at the 
base ; compressed and notched at the point; nostrils basal, la¬ 
teral, half concealed by a membrane which is slightly feathered ; 
wings and tail short; the two exterior toes attached to the mid¬ 
dle one for half their length; third and fourth wing feathers 
longest. 
