. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Umbrella-bird {Cephalopterus ornafus). exists, as to its true affinities. This is the Hoatzin {QpisChocomuscristatus, fig. 97), which inhabits Guiana and the immense Valleyof the Amazon. When hatched, it has two well-developedfingers, each with a claw, and is said to creep about on all fourslike a Quadruped. The curious and rapidly disappearing Huia-bird of New Zea- HfTEODUCTlON. 93 land {HeterahcTia aeutirostris) is very remarkable because thetwo sexes have very differently shaped beaks. The males isshort, straight, and conical; the females is long,
. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Umbrella-bird {Cephalopterus ornafus). exists, as to its true affinities. This is the Hoatzin {QpisChocomuscristatus, fig. 97), which inhabits Guiana and the immense Valleyof the Amazon. When hatched, it has two well-developedfingers, each with a claw, and is said to creep about on all fourslike a Quadruped. The curious and rapidly disappearing Huia-bird of New Zea- HfTEODUCTlON. 93 land {HeterahcTia aeutirostris) is very remarkable because thetwo sexes have very differently shaped beaks. The males isshort, straight, and conical; the females is long, slender, andvery much curved (fig. 98). The Bower-birds, so noted for the playipg-places, or Kg. The Bell-bird {Chasmorhj/nchus rmdicoUis). bowers, which they construct, and which do not serve asnests, are a small group of sixteen species absolutely peculiar toAustralia and New G-uinea. Of these, the Satin Bower-bird(Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, fig. 99) will afiord a good example. We may now return to consider certain Birds which are re-presented in our own region of the world. The Common EoUer 94 ELEMENTS OF OENITHOLOGT. (Coracias garrula, fig. 100), which tumbles in the air somewhatlike a Tumbler-pigeon, is a very handsome bird which is commonin the South of Europe, and occasionally visits England. It isthe type of a bright-coloured Birds which extend south-wards to Australia, the Malayan region, and Madagascar, but Fig. 97.
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