. A dictionary of birds . Fifth, Sixth, akd Seventh Sbcondaeies OF THE MALE MaCH^ROPTERUS DELICIO-SUS : THE FIRST TWO FROM ABOVE, THELAST FROM BENEATH. Corresponding Feathers of the FbmalEjshewing the sa5ie aspect. (From tlie Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1860, p. 90.) in Cayenne, according to BufFon {Eist Nat. Oiseaux, iv. p. 413), ofCassenoisette. This view is supported by Mr. Layard, who, writing ofthe last species, says (Ibis, 1873, p. 384)—They make a curiousrattling noise (I suspect, by some movement of the oddly shapedwing-feathers), which constantly betrays their presence in t

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. A dictionary of birds . Fifth, Sixth, akd Seventh Sbcondaeies OF THE MALE MaCH^ROPTERUS DELICIO-SUS : THE FIRST TWO FROM ABOVE, THELAST FROM BENEATH. Corresponding Feathers of the FbmalEjshewing the sa5ie aspect. (From tlie Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1860, p. 90.) in Cayenne, according to BufFon {Eist Nat. Oiseaux, iv. p. 413), ofCassenoisette. This view is supported by Mr. Layard, who, writing ofthe last species, says (Ibis, 1873, p. 384)—They make a curiousrattling noise (I suspect, by some movement of the oddly shapedwing-feathers), which constantly betrays their presence in theforests, while of the congeneric M. guthirosus, Mr. J. F. Hamiltonremarks {Ibis, 1871, p. 305)—The first intimation given of thepresence of one of these birds is a sharp whirring sound very likethat of a childs small wooden rattle, followed by two or three sharpsnaps. The same observer adds (loc. cit.) of a member of thekindred genus CJmoxiphia, containing 5 species, that C. caudata isknown to the Brazilians as the

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