04 COCK-OF-THE-WOOD—COLIN 
Dutch authors, who had described so many beautiful creatures from 
their possessions in South America, had never mentioned this 
remarkable bird. It has now for many years been recognized as 
Rupicola crocea, the type of the genus, and is common enough in 
museums, where its almost wholly orange-coloured plumage, as well 
as its disk-like crest, render it conspicuous. It inhabits Guiana, 
and the lower countries of the Amazons; but further to the west- 
ward it is replaced by the more deeply-tinted F. peruviana, and a 
third species, the blood-red £. sanguinolenta occupies still higher 
elevations in Ecuador. The genus is now generally placed in the 
Family Cotingide. (CHATTERER), though Garrod, on account of 
certain differences in the formation of the crural arteries, which 
seem to be of no great taxonomic value (see INTRODUCTION), had 
eo penace it from them ; but it may well be regarded, as by Mr. 
Sclater (Cat. B. Br. Mus. xiv. p. 366) as form- 
ing a distinct subfamily, Rupicoliny, the only 
question being whether it is not as much 
allied to the Pipridx. Next to Rupicola he 
places Phenicocercus, containing two species, 
P. carnifex from Guiana and the lower Amazons, 
and P. nigricollis from the upper portion of the 
same valley. Each of these genera exhibits a 
curious modification of the primary quills, 
which in both the Familes just named are 
PHCENICOCERCUS. < ‘ 
(After Swainson.) subject to so much abnormality. In the males 
of Phenicocercus the fourth quill is much 
shortened, and terminates in a thickened horny process, while 
in Rupicola the first quill is suddenly attenuated towards the tip. 
COCK-OF-THE-WOOD, see CAPERCALLY. 
CODDY-MODDY (etymology unknown), a local name of con- 
siderable antiquity, and still in use for the Black-headed GULL 
(Larus ridibundus). 
COLDFINCH, a name for which no explanation can be offered, 
unless it may have been intended for Coalfinch, but used so long 
ago as Willughby’s time for the Pied FLYCATCHER. 
COLIN, the Mexican word! which practically signifies QUAIL, 
though the Quails of the New World have long been held to form 
a group distinct from any of those of the Old. The name seems to 
have been first printed in 1635 by Nieremberg (Hist. Nat. p. 232, 
cap. Ixxii.); but he says he took it from Hernandez, whose work 
was not published until 1651, where it duly occurs (Hist. Anim. 
Nov. Hispan. p. 22, cap. xxxix.). Willughby (Ornithol. Lat. p. 304, 
1 The French Colin, an old nick-name for a GULL, given in 1555 by Belon 
(Ois. p. 167), has no connexion with the Mexican word. 
