. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. nisi 1)1! y. the mouths of ahiiost the whole of animated nature, the C'anipanero still cheers the forest. You may hear his toll and then pause for a minute, then another toll and then a pause again, and then a toll and again a pavise; then he is silent for six or eight minutes and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid-chase, JNIaria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him, .so sweet, so novel, and so romantic is the toll of the pretty snow-white Cai^ipanero. He is never seen t
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. nisi 1)1! y. the mouths of ahiiost the whole of animated nature, the C'anipanero still cheers the forest. You may hear his toll and then pause for a minute, then another toll and then a pause again, and then a toll and again a pavise; then he is silent for six or eight minutes and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid-chase, JNIaria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him, .so sweet, so novel, and so romantic is the toll of the pretty snow-white Cai^ipanero. He is never seen to feed with the other Cotingas, nor is it known in what part of Guiana he makes his ; With regard to the spiral tube on the forehead, or caruncle, Mr. Salvin remarks * :—" From dried specimens it is impossible to make any satisfactory dissection of the caruncles, to ascertain whether or not any communication exists through means of which air could be passed so as to inflate them and. UMliKELLA KIKD. cause them to become rigid. On opening the caruncle of an immature male, I found that fine fibrous tissues adhered to the enclosing skin. This would show that in life the caruncle is not hollow, and that, if the internal structure is cellular and capable of inflation by air, these tissues would prevent the outer skin from swelling and taking a bladder-like form. If inflation actually is produced, as analogy with the Cayenne-bird, as described by Mr. Waterton, would certainly suggest, it still remains to be seen from what source the air pressure is derived. The question, too, arises. Is the inflating apparatus, if I may so call it, the growth of the maturing male, as are the caruncles themselves ? My own impression is that no inflation takes place, and that the bird possesses little or no voluntary nuiscular control over excrescences, but that contraction or elongation takes place, as in the fleshy protuberance over the bill of the conmion Turkey. The same app
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