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This genus, at firft fight, much refembles the following, or 

 that of 'Titmice ; and fuppofed to inhabit South America only } 

 but we have feen more than one bird, below-defcribed, which 

 came from other parts, and appeared to belong to this clafs as 

 clearly as thofe from the firft-named place. 



r. Pipra rupicola, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 338. 1. 



J&OCK M. Le Coq-de-rochej Brtf, orn. iv. p. 437. 1. pi. 34. f. 1. — Buf. oi/. iv. p. 432. 



pi. 20. — PI. e«l. pi. 39. (the male.) pi. 7.47. (female ) — Vofmaer, t. 6. 

 Hoopoe Hen, Ed<w. pi. 264. 

 Crelted Manakin, Gen. of Birds, p. 64. pL 10. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Mxf. 



Description. Q IZE of a fmall Pigeon : length from ten to twelve inches. 

 Bill an inch and a quarter long, and of a yellowifh colour : 

 the head furnifhed with a double round creft: general colour of 

 the plumage orange, inclining to faffron : the wing coverts loofe 

 and fringed : quills part white part brown : tail feathers twelve 

 in number; the bafe half of the ten middle ones orange, from 

 thence to the ends brown j the outer feathers brown, with the 

 bafe half of the inner web orange ; all of them fringed at the 

 ends with the fame : the upper tail coverts are very long, loofely 

 webbed, and fquare at the ends : legs and claws yellow. 

 Femalb. The female is wholly brown, except the under wing coverts, 



which are of a rufous orange j and the creft neither fo complete 

 nor rounded as in the male. 



Both males and females are at firft grey, or of a very pale 

 yellow, inclining to brown : the male does not acquire the 

 orange colour till the fecond year, neither does the female the 

 full brown *. 



* Mem. fur Cayenne, vol. ii. p. 256. 



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