PLEAIURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. 29 



From music go YE, and contemplate now 

 The many-tinted robes intense and bright 

 That mock description in the various tribes; 

 Where colour vies with colour — red with green — 

 Crimson with black — the "purple with the blue — 

 Yellow with orange — dove with fairest whiter 

 Apart, or else, by intermixture nice, 

 A thousand shades producing such as ne'er 

 By art was pictur'd, or by fancy wrought : 

 What need to name the Peacock's (') splendid plumes, 

 The Pheasant's (^ ) green and gold ; the orange tints 

 Of Manakin ; (') the glossy black and green 

 Of Promerops (*) superb — the brilliant dyes 

 Which proudly Birds of Paradise (*) bedeck ! 



Behold the groups of Psittacids (*^) that climb 

 The palm, or on the coco*s branches swing, 

 As gay as garrulous ;— the PicidsC) too. 

 With ivory beak of elegance, yet strength 

 To pierce the hollow bole with echoing strokes 

 That through the forest ring, and thence obtain 



(') Pavo cri8iatus.-—{'*-) PhasianuM Colchicus, or Common 

 Pheasant.— ('2) Pipra rupicolcy or Cock of the Rock. — 

 (*)Upupa superba, or Grand Promerops. — (^) Paradisea apoda, 

 ox Greater Bird of Paradise. — (^) Psiltacids, birds of 

 the Parrot tribe. — (7) PicidSj birds of the Woodpecker 

 tribe } the allusion in the text applies to Picus principalis, or 

 Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 



