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Place and 



Manners. 



This beautiful fpecies inhabits various parts of Surinam, Ca- 

 yenne, and Guiana, in rocky fituations ; but is no where fo fre- 

 quent as in the mountain Luca, near the river Oyapoc, and in 

 the mountain Courouaye, near the river Aprouack ; where they 

 build in the cavernous hollows, and the darkeft recedes. They 

 lay two round white eggs, the fize of thofe of a Pigeon ; and 

 make the neft of a few dry bits of (licks. Are in general very 

 fhy ; but have been frequently tamed, infomuch as to run at 

 large among the poultry. It is faid that the female, after flie has 

 laid eggs for fome years, and ceafes fo to do more, becomes at the 

 enfuing moult of the fame colour as the male, and may be mif- 

 taken for him * ; in this imitating the females of various kinds 

 of 'poultry, fuch as the Peacock, Pheajant, &c. which will be men- 

 tioned under thofe refpective heads. 



A moft complete pair is in the Leverian Mufeum. 



Le Coc-de-roche de Perou, Buf. oif. iv. p. 457. — Pi. enl. 745. Var! A. 



PERUVIAN MV 



THIS bird is longer than the preceding, efpecially in the ._ 

 b r fc r ' Description. 



tail, and the upper coverts of it not truncated at the ends : 

 t he wing coverts not fringed, as in the Rock Manakin, and the 

 creft is not fo well defined as in that bird : the general colour of 

 the plumage much inclining to red: the fecond coverts and rump 

 afh-colour : wings and tail black : bill and legs as in the laft- 

 defcribed. 



Inhabits the country about Peru. Piaci 



• Sahrne em. p. 144, 

 5 Plpra 



