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good reprefentatlon of the head of the bird, (all that was then known,) has 

 called it by the name of the Hoopoe-Hen. On ftridly examining however 

 the beak and other parts according to the true principles of the Linnasan 

 arrangement, we find that the bird does not in reality belong to that tribe. 

 It is a true Pipra j a genus in which moft of the other fpecies are fmall birds ; 

 fo that it is as gigantic a bird in its own genus, as the Great Crowned 

 Pio'eon is in that of Columba. 



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With refpecl to the habits and hiftory of this bird I believe nothing can 

 be added to what Mr. Latham has faid in his Synopfis of birds, viz. 

 that it principally inhabits the holes and dark caverns of rocks, &c. in 

 which it breeds, laying two white eggs of the fize of thofe of a Pigeon : 

 that it is a wild and timid bird, yet capable of being domefticated fo as 

 to be kept with common poultry; and that it is principally found in the 

 provinces of Guiana and Cayenne in South America. The female is ftrikingly 

 different in point of colour ; being of an uniform brown ; and has a crefl: Icfs 

 elegant than the male. It is alfo faid that the young are at firft inclining 

 to brown, and that there have not been wanting inftances in which the fe- 

 male has appeared in a plumage nearly fimilar to that of the male. A cir- 

 cumftance which has been fometimes obferved in the gallinaceous tribe. 



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