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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 519 205. AULIA RUFESCENS (Scl.). Lipaugus rufescens, Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 296. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) A single immature specimen seems to be referable to this Central- American form. 206. LIPAUGUS HOLERYTHRUS, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 211. Neche. Food, insects. 207. RUPICOLA SANGUINOLENTA, Gould; Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 29, pi. xv. Concordia, Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris yellow. Eggs (no. 156) pale buff, spotted with various-sized spots of shades from red-brown to pale lilac, chiefly at the larger end: axis 1*85, diam. 1*35. Mr. Salmon's skins of Rupicola belong to the form described by Mr. Gould as R. sanguinolenta, though perhaps not quite so dark as examples from Ecuador. Bogota skins (Mus. S.-G.) belong to the lighter form, R. peruviana. The egg of Rupicola was obtained by Goudot in Colombia1, and is figured by Des Murs in the ' Magasin de Zoologie,' 1843, Ois. pi. 37. M. Des Murs's figure agrees sufficiently well with Mr. Salmon's specimens, which, however, are not so thickly spotted. Mr. Salmon thus describes his visit to the breeding-place of this bird :-" I once went to see the breeding-place of the Cock-of-the- Rock ; and a darker or wilder place I have never been in. Following up a mountain-stream in the district of Frontino, the gorge became gradually more enclosed and more rocky, till I arrived at the mouth of a cave, with high rock on each side and overshadowed by high trees, into which the sun never penetrated. All was wet and dark, and the only sound heard the rushing of the water over the rocks. W e had hardly become accustomed to tbe gloom when a nest was found, a dark bird stealing away from what appeared to be a lump of m ud upon tbe face of the rock. This upon examination proved to be a nest of the ' Cock-of-tbe-Rock ' containing two eggs ; it was built upon a projecting piece, the body being made of m u d or clay, then a few sticks, and on the top lined with green moss. It was about five feet from the water. 1 did not see the male bird ; nor indeed have I hardly ever seen male and female birds together, though I have seen both sexes in separate flocks." 208. PIPREOLA RIEFFERI (Boiss.) ; Scl. Ibis, 1878, p. 166. Retiro, Medellin, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Stomach contained fruit. Eggs (no 43) pale salmon-colour, with a few dark red-brown spots: axis 1, diam. *8. (See Plate XLIII. fig. 7.) 1 See Eev. Zool. 1813, p. 1. |