220 MANAKIN. 



Coq de Roche, Buf. iv. 432. pi. 20. PI. enl. 39.— male. 747.— female. Vosmaer. 



Monog. t. 6. 

 Gallo de los Penascos, Gabiri. de Madrid, i. 75. — lam. 34. 

 Hoopoe Hen, Edw, pi. 264. 

 Crested Manakin, Gen. Birds, 64. pi. 10. 

 Rock Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. 518. Nat. Misc. pi. 593. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 9. 



SIZE of a small Pigeon ; length from ten to twelve inches. Bill 

 one inch and a quarter long, and yellowish ; nostrils pervious ; on 

 the head a double round crest, flattened on the sides; general colour 

 of the plumage orange, inclining to saffron ; wing coverts loose, and 

 fringed ; under coverts whitish and grey ; quills part white, part 

 brown; tail feathers twelve in number; the base half of the ten 

 middle ones orange, from thence to the ends brown ; the outer 

 feathers brown, with the base half of the inner web orange ; all of 

 them fringed at the ends with the same ; the upper tail coverts very 

 long, loosely webbed, and square at the ends ; legs and claws yel- 

 low. The female is wholly brown, the under wing coverts rufous 

 orange ; crest as in the male, but less complete, and less rounded. 



Both sexes are grey at first, or yellowish, inclining to brown ; 

 but the male does not acquire the orange colour, nor the female the 

 full brown, till the second year.* 



This is a most beautiful bird, and inhabits Surinam, Cayenne, 

 and Guiana, in rocky situations ; but no where so frequent as in 

 the Mountain Luca, near the River Oyapoc, and in the Mountain 

 Courouaye, near the River Aprouack, where it builds, in the cavern- 

 ous hollows, and dark recesses : the nest is composed merely of a 

 few dry sticks; and the eggs two in number, of the size of those of 

 a Pigeon, and equally white. It is in general very shy, but has 

 been frequently tamed, so as to run at large among the Poultry. It 

 is said, that the female after she has laid eggs for some years, not 

 unfrequently becomes of the same colour as the male, and may be 



* Mem. sur Cayenne, ii. 256. 



