The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . foundations of the subject will be foundin Lord Rayleighs Sound and in Sir G. Airys Tides andWaves, respectively. In speaking and hearing .trumpetsalike all reverberation of the instrument should be avoidedby making it thick and of the least elastic materials, -andby covering it externally with cloth. TRUMPETER, or Trumpet-Bird, the literal renderingin 1747, by the anonymous En
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . foundations of the subject will be foundin Lord Rayleighs Sound and in Sir G. Airys Tides andWaves, respectively. In speaking and hearing .trumpetsalike all reverberation of the instrument should be avoidedby making it thick and of the least elastic materials, -andby covering it externally with cloth. TRUMPETER, or Trumpet-Bird, the literal renderingin 1747, by the anonymous English translator of D6la Condamines travels in South America (p. 87), of thatwriters Oiseau trompette {Mem. de IAcad. des Sciences,1745, p. 473), which he says was called Trompeteroby the Spaniards of Maynas on the upper Amazons, fromthe peculiar sound it utters. He added that it was the Agami of the inhabitants of Para and Cayenne,^ w:hereinhe was not wholly accurate, since those birds afe specificallydistinct, though, as they are generically united, the state-ment may pass. But he was also wrong, as had beenBarrere (France Equinoxiale, p. 132) in 1741, in identify-ing the Agami with the Macucagua of Marcgrave,. Wlite-winged trumpeter {Psopkia leiicoplera). After MitchelL for that is a Tinamou (); and both still more wronglyaccounted for the origin of the peculiar sound just men-tioned, whereby Barrere was soon after led (Omith. SpecJfomim, pp. 62, 63) to apply to the bird the generic andvulgar names of Psophia and Petteuse, the former ofwhich, being unfortunately adopted by Linnasus, has eversince been used, though in 1766 and 1767 Pallas (Miscel-lanea, p. 67, and Spicilegia, iv. p. 6), and in 1768 Vosmaer(Descr. du Trompette Americain, p. 5), showed that tbo Not to be confounded with the Heron Agami sf Buffon(Oiseaux, viL p. 382), which is the Ardea agami of other writers. T R U —T R U 595 notion it conveys is erroneous. Among English writersthe name Trumpeter was carr
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