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compressed, crest wliich reaches from the tip of the bill to the 

 na})e, the unusual formation of the upper tail-coverts, the peculiar 

 formation of the first or outer primarj'-quill, the partially feathered 

 tiirsi, and the large feet. Coloration : male and female different. 



539. Rupicola rupicola. 

 Cock of the Rock. 



Pipra rupicola Linn. Syst. Xat. i. p. 33S, 17G6 (Sui'inara). 



Hupicola crocea Cab. in Sehomb. lieis. Guian. i. p. J:42, iii. p. 695, 

 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1-SS.5, p. 3(>1 (Camacusa, Menime Mts., Ata- 

 pui-au River); Sc- later, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 369, 1SS8 (Cara- 

 mang Eiver, Merume Mts., Atapm-ow Kiver, Camacusa) ; Lloyd, 

 Timehri (2) xi. p. 9, 1897 (nesting). 



Hupicola cayanna Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana, 

 p. 228, 1876 (Cpper Essequibo). 



Ruj)icola rupicola Braboume &, Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 304, no. 3269, 

 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above and below bright orange- 

 red ; the feathers of the crest are darker subapically and form 

 a semicircular line ; some of the greater upper "uing-coverts brown 

 fringed with orange; bastard-wing white, with more or less smoke- 

 brown on the apical portion; primary-coverts uniform brown tipped 

 with buffy-white ; flight-quills dark brown, with a large amount 

 of white on the inner webs, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh more or less white on the outer webs, the inner 

 primary and secondary quills edged with white at the tips, be- 

 coming orange on the innermost, where the outer webs are 

 eloni;ated and disinte«rated and also orauf(e-colour ; tail dark 

 brown with an orange tino;e, the feathers oran<ie on the outer 

 webs at the ba.se, and pale orange or white at the tips; a ring of 

 short white feathers encircles the eye ; greater under wing-coverts 

 and under suifaceof flight-quills brown, the latter broadly fringed 

 with white on the inner webs ; lower aspect of tail also Inuwn 

 tipped with pale orange. 



Total length 25'J nnu., culmen (from the base of skull) 2G, 

 wing 175, tail 84, tarsus 35. 



The specimen described was collected on the Curubung l{iver Ity 

 Mr. McConnell during his expedition to Mount Uoraima lu 

 September Ib'Jb. 



