Archive image from page 205 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 194 AVES. are short ; and their general proportions occasioned them to he long regarded as allied to the Tits At their head, but as a separate subdivision, should be placed The Rock-manakins {Rupicola, Brisson),— Which are large birds, and have a double vertical crest on the head, composed of feathers disposed longitudinally like a fan. The adult males of the two species, both from America (Pip. rupicola, Gm., and P. peruviana. L
Archive image from page 205 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 194 AVES. are short ; and their general proportions occasioned them to he long regarded as allied to the Tits At their head, but as a separate subdivision, should be placed The Rock-manakins {Rupicola, Brisson),— Which are large birds, and have a double vertical crest on the head, composed of feathers disposed longitudinally like a fan. The adult males of the two species, both from America (Pip. rupicola, Gm., and P. peruviana. Lath.),—are of a delicate rich orange colour, while the young are dull broisTi. They live on fruits, and scratch the ground like a common Fowl, construct their nests with wood in the depths of caverns, the female laying two eggs. The Emerald-manakins {Calyptomena, Horsf.)— Merely differ from the preceding in the head-feathers not being disposed like a fan. There is a species, not larger than a Thrush, in the Indian Archipelago, the colour of which is intensely brilliant emerald-green. The True Manakins {Pipra, Cuv.)— Are diminutive birds, generally remarkable for their vid colours. They inhabit humid forests in large troops. [All are American, and they obviously pertain to the great Cotinga family, as do also the Rock-manakins.] The Eurylaimes (Eurylaimus, Horsf.)— Have feet similar to those of the Manakins and Rock-manakins ; but their beak, as strong as in the Tyrants, is exceedingly wide and depressed, its base being voider even than the forehead. These birds inhabit the Indian Archipelago, and have a black ground-colour, relieved by vivid colours j they have much the air of the Barbets, a genus of a very different order. Frequent watery situations, and feed on insects [and also berries]. The Fissirostres,— Compose a family numerically small, but very distinct from all others in the beak, which is short, broad, horizontally depressed, slightly hooked, unemarginate
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