86 CHEEPER—CHENOMORPARA 
sion HETEROMERI of the Mrsomyopr of Garrod and Forbes (see 
InrROpUCTION). Mr. Sclater, who adds thereto Rupicola (CocK-oF- 
THE-Rock) and an allied genus, which Garrod had put among his 
HoMcoMERI, divides the Cotingidx into five subfamilies (Cat. B. Br. 
AMPELION, PYRODERUS. 
(After Swainson.) 
Mus. xiv. pp. 326-405), Tityrine with 3 genera, Lipaugine with 4, 
Attiline and Rupicoline each with 2, Cotingine with 11, and Gymno- 
derine 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 wing- quills, and 
occasionally of their wing-coverts—a feature in the former case 
observable also among the Pipridx, 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 1 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 wallichi, 
a fine but plainly-coloured PHEASANT, a native of the Western 
Himalayas. 
CHENOMORPHA,, the first group of Prof. Huxley’s Suborder 
DESMOGNATHE (Proc. Zool. Soe. 1867, p. 460), composed of the 
Anatidx of most authors—the Ducks and their allies, among which 
he includes Palamedea (SCREAMER). 
1 So named by Edwards (Gleanings, ii. p. 275, pl. 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. 
