I.
ROCK M.
D i s c r e t io n .
F emale«
This genus, at firft fight, much refembles the following, or
that o f T i tm i c e ; and fuppofed to inhabit S outh Am e r ica only s
but we have feen more than one bird, below-defcribed, which
came from other parts, and appeared to belong to this clafs as
clearly as thofe from the firft-named place.
Pipra rupicola, Lin. Sjf. i. p, 338. 1,
Le Coq-de-rodie, Brif. orn, iv. p. 437. 1. pi. 34. f. 1 .-—Buf. oif. Iy. p. 432,
pi. 2a— PI, oil. pi. 39. (the male.) pi. 747. (female )— Vofmaer, t. 6.
Hoopoe Hen« Ed*w. pi. 264.
Crelled Manakin, Gen. of Birds, p. 64. pi. 10.
Br. Muj. Lev. Muf.
g IZ E o f a fmall Pigeon : length from ten to twelve Inches.
Bill an inch and a quarter long, and o f a yellowilh colour:
the head furnifhed with a double round creft: general colour of
the plumage orange, inclining to faffron : the wing coverts loofe
and fringed: quills part white part brown : tail feathers twelve
in number j the bafe half o f the ten middle ones orange, from
thence to the ends brown; the outer feathers brown, with the
bafe half o f the inner web orange j all of them fringed at the
ends with the fame : the upper tail coverts are very long, loofely
webbed, and fquare at the ends : legs and claws yellow.
T he f em a le is wholly brown, except the under wing coverts,
which are o f a rufous orange j and the creft neither fo complete
nor rounded as in the m a le .
Both m a le s and fem a le s are at firft grey, or o f a very pale
yellow, inclining to brown : the m ale does not acquire the
orange colour till the fecond year, neither does the f em a le the
full brown *.
* Mem. fur Cayenne, vol. ii. p. 256.
This
This beautiful fpecies inhabits various parts o f Su r in am , C a - m *nn£*r"C
y en n e , and G u ia n a , in rocky fituations; but is no where fo frequent
as in the mountain L u c a , near the river Qy a p o c , and in
the mountain Courouaye, near the river A p r o u a c k ; where they
build in the cavernous hollows, and the darkeft recefies. They
lay two round white eggs; the fize o f thofe o f a P igeon; and
make the neft o f a few dry bits o f fticks. Are in general very
fhy j but have been frequently tamed, infomuch as to run at
large among the poultry. It is faid that the fem a le , after Ihe has
laid eggs for fome years, and ceafes fo to do more, becomes at the
enfuing moult of the fame colour as the male, and may be mif-
taken for him * ; in this imitating the females o f various kinds
o f p o u ltry , fuch as the P e a c o c k , P h e a fa n t , &c. which will be mentioned
under thofe refpective heads.
A m oll complete pair is in the L e v e r ia n M u feum .
t e Coc-c!e-roche de Penou, Buf. oif. Iv. p. 437.— PI. ml. 745, y AR. A.
PERUVIAN M.
'J 'H I S bird is longer than the preceding, efpecially in the Dbscription
tail, and the upper coverts of it not truncated at the ends :
the wing coverts not fringed, as in the R o c k M a n a k in , and the
creft is not fo well defined as in that bird : the general colour of
the plumage much inclining to red: the fecond coverts and rump
afh-colour : wings and tail black: bill and legs as in the laft-
defcribed.
Inhabits the country about P e n t . Place.
* SaUme orn. p. 144.
* Pipra