. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i ;â â > U 1^ t â i '! â 1 ! :l 11 '-hi' *â ! 11: 328 THE M A N A K I N S. other nomenclators are more culpable for deiio- minatlng them Pi/>ra, or for clalfing them to- gether with the Cock of the Rock*, to which they bear no analogy, except in this difpofitiori of the toes and in the ftjuare Ihape of the tail: for, befides the totaldifproportion in rize,the Cock of the Rock being as large, compared with the Manakins, as the common hen contraded with a Sparrow,
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i ;â â > U 1^ t â i '! â 1 ! :l 11 '-hi' *â ! 11: 328 THE M A N A K I N S. other nomenclators are more culpable for deiio- minatlng them Pi/>ra, or for clalfing them to- gether with the Cock of the Rock*, to which they bear no analogy, except in this difpofitiori of the toes and in the ftjuare Ihape of the tail: for, befides the totaldifproportion in rize,the Cock of the Rock being as large, compared with the Manakins, as the common hen contraded with a Sparrow, there are many other obvious charac- ters which diftlnguifh them : their bill is much Ihorter in proportion, they are generally not crefted, and in thofc which have a creft, it is not double, as in the Cock of the Rock, but formed by fmgle feathers, fomevvhat longer than the reft. We ought therefore to remove from the Manakins, not only the Horn-bills, but the Cock of the Rock, and reckon them an inde- pendent genus. The natural habits common to them all were not known, and the obferVations which have been made are ftill infuflicient to admit an exadl detail. We fhall only relate the remarks com- municated to us by Sonini of Manoncour, who faw many of thefe birds in their native climates. They inhabit the immenfe forefts in the warm parts of America, and never emerge from their recefles to vifit the cleared grounds or the vici- nity of the plantations. They fly with con- fidcrable fvviftnefs, but always at a fmall height, ' it lA l^i ⢠Briflbn. and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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