QUEEULA. PYRODEKUS. 



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the Oanuku Mountains. Its presence in the thickly-foliaged trees 

 was always betrayed by its peculiarly harsh note, which was 

 remarkably well imitated by the Indians. When the bird became 

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

 nidification was unknown to Schomburgk. The " Warraus" called 

 it Naihamaraku and the "Macusis" Townwa. 



Genus PYRODERUS Gray. 

 Pyroderus Gray, List Gen. B. p. 38, 1840. Type P. scutata (Shaw). 



Fig. 122. — Pyroderus scutata. 



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

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

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

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

 feathered, and the rictal bristles, though not numerous, are strongly 

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

 primary-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 exceeds the length of the exposed 

 culmen by about one-fourth. Coloration : male and female 

 similar. 



