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the Oannkii ]Moantains. Its presence in the thickly-foliaged trees 

 was always betrayed bv its peculiarly harsh note, which was 

 remarkably well imitated by tjie Indians. When the bird became 

 excited it would raise the feathers on its head and neck. Its 

 nidification was unknown to Schoinbiirgk. The " \Yarraus*' called 

 it J^\iikamaraku and the "Macusis" Townwa. 



Genus PYRODERUS Gray. 

 Pi/roderus Gray, List Gen. B. p. 38, 18iO. Type P. scutafa (Shaw). 



Fig. 122. — Pi/roJc/'ics scutata. 



The species on which this genus was based are large birds and 

 distinguished by their black, red, and chestnut plumage. The 

 bill is compressod, the culmen is keeled and hooked at the 

 tip of the upper mandible. The hinder portion ot" the nostrils is 

 feathered, and the rictal bristk's, though not numerous, are strongly 

 developed. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 jirimary-quills are longest and subequal, the second is about equal 

 in length to the seventh and the first about equal to the tenth. 

 The tail is rounded at the tip and about two-thirds the length of 

 the wing, and the tarsus exceeil.s the length of the exposed 

 cubiMMi by aliuiii unc-fourtli. ( ViIor;itii.in ; male and female 

 similtir. 



