. A dictionary of birds . Ampelion. (After Swainson.) Pyroderus. Mus. xiv. pp. 326-405), Tityrinm with 3 genera, Lipauginx with 4,Attilinee a,nd Eupicolina} each with 2, Cotinginx with 11, and Gymno-derinse with 7 (see Bell-bird, partim, and Umbrella-bird). Aconsiderable number of these birds are remarkable for the extra-ordinarily abnornal form of some of their Aving - quills, andoccasionally of their wing-coverts—a feature in the former caseobservable also among the Pipridie, and, where existing, generallyconfined to the male sex. Many of them also are brilliantlycoloured, and at least one,

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. A dictionary of birds . Ampelion. (After Swainson.) Pyroderus. Mus. xiv. pp. 326-405), Tityrinm with 3 genera, Lipauginx with 4,Attilinee a,nd Eupicolina} each with 2, Cotinginx with 11, and Gymno-derinse with 7 (see Bell-bird, partim, and Umbrella-bird). Aconsiderable number of these birds are remarkable for the extra-ordinarily abnornal form of some of their Aving - quills, andoccasionally of their wing-coverts—a feature in the former caseobservable also among the Pipridie, and, where existing, generallyconfined to the male sex. Many of them also are brilliantlycoloured, and at least one, Xipholena pompadora—known as thePompadour ^ Chatterer, is of a hue scarcely to be seen in any otherbird. CHEEPER, the young of any kind of bird that cheeps or uttersa low plaintive note, especially used of game-birds, Grouse,Partridges, or Pheasants; but also a name of the Tit Lark,though mostly with a prefix, as Moss-Cheeper or the like. CHEER or CHIR, the Anglo-Indian name of Phasianus wallklii,a fine but plainly-co

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