360 FOREIGN BIRDS. 



While many a Warbler's and Oriole's song 

 Were heard, in wild cadence, pimentas among, 

 The Gold-breasted Trumpeter ( 3I ) shouted aloud; 

 Of all harsh discordance he seems to be proud. 

 The Grand Promerops*, too, in his beautiful gTeen, 

 Other Hoopoes of splendour were also there seen. 



( 3I ) Order, Grall^e, (Linn.) Trumpeter, the Gos.d- 

 breasted, the Ujsdulate. 



The genus Psophia, (Linn.) or Trumpeter, consists of 

 three species, distinguished by a cylindric, conic, convex, some- 

 what pointed bill; the upper mandible larger; nostrils oval, 

 pervious; tongue cartilaginous; feet four toed, cleft. The 

 following are the chief: — 



The Crepitans, or Gold-breasted Trumpeter, is black, 

 back grey ; breast shining blue green ; legs strong, tall, tail 

 short; feathers of the head downy, of the lower part of the neck 

 squamiform ; of the shoulders ferruginous, lax, pendulous, silky ; 

 twenty inches long; makes a haish uncommon cry, not unlike 

 a child's trumpet, and follows people through the streets with 

 its disagreeable noise, so that it is difficult to get rid of it ; 

 stands on'one leg, and sleeps with its head between its shoulders; 

 eggs blue green. Inhabits Brazil and Guinea. When tamed, 

 mixes with other poultry, and domineers even over the Guinea 

 fowl ; follows its master in its walks; flesh good. — Waterton. 



The Undulata, or Undulate-Trumpeter, has the body 

 above brown, waved with black, beneath bluish white ; size of 

 a goose ; inhabits Africa. 



f See note (24,) Part I. 



