EUPICOLA. 



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

 nape, the unusual formation of the upper tail-coverts, the peculiar 

 formation of the first or outer primary-quill, the partially feathered 

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



539. Eupicola rupicola. 

 Cock of the Eook. 



Pipra rupicola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 338, 1766 (Surinam). 



Rupicola croeea Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. i. p. 442, iii. p. 695, 

 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885,' p. 304 (tlamacusa, Merume Mts., Ata- 

 purau Eiver) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 369, 1888 (Cara- 

 mang River, Merume Mts., Atapurow Rivei-, Camaeusa); Lloyd, 

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



Mupicola eayanna Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in Britisb Guiana, 

 p. 228, 1876 (Upper Essequibo). 



JRupicola rupicola Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 804, 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 wing-eoverts 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 

 elongated and disintegrated and also orange-colour ; tail dark 

 brown with an orange tinge, the feathers orange on the outer 

 webs at the base, and pale orange or white at the tips ; a ring of 

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

 and under surface of flight-quills brown, the latter broadly fringed 

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

 tipped with pale orange. 



Total length 259 mm., culmen (from the base of skull) 26, 

 wing 175, tail 84, tarsus 35. 



The specimen described was collected on the Curubung River by 

 Mr. McCounell during his expedition to Mount Roraima in 

 September 1898. 



