
ROCK MANAKIN 
- ce an sah creft, with a purple margin. ‘The plumage 
: We a faffron colour, and the coverts of the tail are fquare, 
; a pMangh cut of, 
This bird is the ae of a {mall pigeon, and 
very Coufal; the plumage, though of one co- 
Oe being very. regularly difpofed. When 
young, its feathers are brown, afterwards of a 
rot colour ; it is only by degrees that it acquires 
_ that eagtul orange, which diftinguifhes this bird 
_ in its more advanced age. eaen 
It is an inhabitant of South America, and is — 
: - found: in various parts of Surinam, Cayenne, and 
: Guiana, i in rocky fituations ; but no where fo 
» frequent as in the Mountain Luca, near the 
a River Oyapoe, and the Mountain Courouaye, 


near the River Aprouack: they build therein 
oH chafms of the rock, and in large caverns 
and recefles, where the fun never penetrates. — 
Vici nefts are of a very coarfe conftruction, 
made like that of the wild pigeon, aera of 
pay flicks. 
kis probable fince they are fo fond of an : 
“ablcure retreat, that their eyes are capable of 
~ confiderable contraction, and dilatation, like thofe 
the owl, becaufe they are feen in the day, par- 

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