CLASS II. AVES; ORDER 2. PASSERES, 



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THE COCK OF TUB ROCK. 





: front over the bill. The upper tail-covcrts are also rcmarlvnhly elongated, curved, and decomposed' 



j so as to form an elegant tuft upon the rump. This bird is found in Guiana, where it frequents the 



rocky shores of the streams; hence its common name. It forms a nest of fragments of wood and 



dry grass in the holes of the rocks, and lays two white eggs. A second species, H. Peruviana, 



I also of a bright orarge color, has been found in Peru and Mexico. 



Genus CALYPTOMENA : Calyptomena.— 

 This includes the Green Calyptomena, C.viridi.s', 

 of the color of the green leaves among which it 

 lives, and therefore seldom seen ; found in Java 

 and 'Sumati'a. 



Other species of Piprina? are South American, 

 and nuich smaller birds ; the Calyptura cristafa, 

 is red, olive, and yellow ; size of a sparrow : the 

 Pipra strigilata, has the head bright red and upper 

 parts green ; size of a wren : P. aureola, of the same 

 size ; color red, back wings and tail black : the 

 3feto2)ia galeata, black, head and neck red : the 

 Crested Pardalotte, P. cristahis, has a red crest, 

 upper parts olive-green ; three inches long ; above 

 gray, undulated with yellow ; rump, throat, and 

 breast yellow. This species lives along the borders 

 of small streams that dash down the rocks of tlie 

 higher mountains. These remote places are in- 

 fested with a gigantic kind of spider, wliich often 

 attacks this little bird suddenly, with his pois- 

 onous fangs, in the throat, and it instantly falls a 

 prey to the insidious destroyer. 



The Thick-Heads, or Pachycephalince, are 



THB GKKEN CALVPTOiiKN A. 



