Identifier: fivehundredfasci00mile (find matches)
Title: Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929
Subjects: Animal behavior Zoology
Publisher: New York, The Christian herald
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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of the fence, amuse himselfwith the violence of the king bird, and play bo-peep withhim round the rail, while the latter, highly irritated, madeevery attempt, as he swept from side to side, to strike him,but in vain. All his turbulence subsides as soon as his youngare able to shift for themselves, and he is then as mild andpeaceable as any other bird. The The Chatterers, or Cotingida include among Chatterers, them, the Cock of the Rock, one of the mostbeautiful of South-American birds. Resembling a pigeon insize, its head is sufficiently like that of the farm-yard cockto account for its name, which is also made to indicate thenature of its haunts. Its coat is a warm saffron yellow andits crest resembles a fan. Sir Robert Schomburgh says: While traversing the Kikiritze mountains in Guiana, wesaw a number of that most beautiful bird, the cock-of-the-rock, or Rock Manakin (ruptcola elegans), and I had an op-portunity of witnessing an exhibition of some of its very MILES NATURAL HISTORY.
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CLIMBING BIRDS. 283 singular antics, of which I had heard stories from the Indians,but had hitherto disbelieved them. Hearing the twitteringnoise so peculiar to the Rupicola, I cautiously stole near, withtwo of my guides, towards a spot secluded from the pathfrom four to five feet in diameter, and which appeared tohave been cleared of every blade of grass, and smoothed asby human hands. There we saw a cock-of-the-rock, caperingto the apparent delight of several others, now spreading itswings, throwing up its head, or opening its tail like a fan;now strutting about, and scratching the ground, all accom-panied by a hopping gait, until tired, when it gabbled somekind of note, and another relieved it. Thus three of themsuccessively took the field, and then with self-approbationwithdrew to rest on one of the low branches near the sceneof action. We had counted ten cocks and two hens of theparty, when the crackling of some wood, on which I hadunfortunately placed my foot, alarmed and disper

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