erefto-colTlpreflI^, or the flattened upright creil, v/hich is placed longitudinally 

 and is double, with the two iurfaces nearly approaching each other. The only 

 birds (perhaps) yet known, in which a fimilarity of ftrufture in the creft takes 

 place, 'are, the Mergus CucuUatus Lin. or Crefted Goofeander; the great 

 Crowned Indian Pigeon, (Col. coronata Lin.) and the leflfer Crowned Pigeon 

 of Latham ; in which birds the creft is nearly of a fimilar ftruifture, and 

 may ftand as an example of one -of the principal beauties obfervable in the 

 feathered tribe. 



There is ftill another circumftance to be obferved in this curious bird ; 

 viz. the very fingular formation of the feathers which lie over the tail, 

 as well as thofe which appear on each fide the tail : thefe feathers are 

 neither gradually leflened towards their extremities, nor rounded, which are 

 tlie ufual terminations of the feathers in moft birds ; but they appear as if 

 cut off tranfverfely towards their ends with fcilTars. This is a mode of 

 termination which in the language of Natural Hiftory is called truncated. 

 There are not wanting fome few inftances of a fimilar form in the feathers of 

 other birds ; the inftance which moft readily occurs is that of the feathers on 

 the neck, breaft, and fides of the common turkey. Another example is afforded 

 by the fliorter wing-feathers of the bird called the Haw-finch, (Loxia Coc- 

 cothranftes Lin.) in which the tips are fomewhat obliquely truncated on 

 each fide, fo as to refemble the figure of an ancient batde-axe. The feathers 

 on each fide the tail are loofely webbed, or naturally diOievelled; a ftrudure 

 of feather which takes place in many birds, but in none more remarkably than in 

 the genus Ardea, v/hich contains tiie Heron tribe ; and in the Paradifea, or 

 bird of Paradife. There is fomething in the air and appearance of the head 

 of the Pipra Rupicola, wliich feems at firft glance to make a near ap- 

 proach to the Gallinaceous tribe, the beak being not unlike that of a common 

 fowl. It is from. this circumftance that the bird has received the title of the 

 Cock of the Rocki and the accurate Mr. Edwards, who has given a pretty 



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