bottom, for one foot upwards, is hollow, like a purfe; the remainder,
or upper part of it, for half a foot, being folid; and
hangs by the top, on the extremity of a branch of a tree. They
often build near houfes ; and on one tree there have been known
above four hundred of thefe nefts: and many pairs have bee»
known to hatch and bring up three broods in a year.
2’.
4- RED-
RUM PED-
O.
Oriolus hsemorrhous, Lin. Syft. i. p. 161. N° 5.
Le Caffique rouge, Brif. orn. ii. p. 98. N° 13. pi. 8. f. 2.
................. ......— du Brefil, ou le Jupuba, Buf. oif. iii. p. 238. —
enl. 482.
D escrip t ion. J^ EN G TH eleven inches. Bill an inch and a quarter long, of
' a brimftone-colour, thick at the bafe, and goes far back into
the forehead, where it is rounded, and bare of feathers : the ge-
Place.
neral colour of the plumage is black : the lower part of the back,
the rump, upper and lower tail coverts, fine crimfon : the wings
and tail dulky black : legs and claws black.
Inhabits Brajil and Cayenne,, where it is called Caffique.
2.
V ar. A. Caffique brun, Orn, de Salerne, p. 112.
D escription. n pH E whole body of this is brown, inclining to black: rump
and upper part of the tail the colour of wine-lees: under the
tail light yellow.
infe&s, and all forts of fmall birds, when it can catch them, and alfo their eggs v
when it advances, it is by hopping, always flirting its tail. It is bold enough to
attack birds of prey, as well as leverets, and other fuch game. Defcrip. de Surinam,
vol. ii. p. 167.
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This is found at Guiana, where it is known by the name of Piac«.
Quiacaigou. It is faid to frequent thick ftiady places, near water,
and to fqueak like a Jay.
Le Caffique hiippe de Cayenne, Buf. oif. iii. p. 241.— PI, enl. 344. 3.
Xanthornus maxim us, Pallas Spic. vi. p. 1. & feq. t. 2.
Lev. Mu/.
<^IZE of a Magpie : length eighteen inches. The bill is ftrong, D escription.
two inches long, o f a dirty yellow, bare, and fomewhat gibbous
at the bafe, where it is rounded and convex : the noftrils are
placed in a furrow : tongue j agged '■ irides blue : the head is fur-
nilhed with a creft, which can be elevated at the will of the bird :
the body is black as far as the middle, but the lower half, rump,
and vent, deep cheftnut: the wings are black: the two middle
tail feathers the fame; the others yellow : the lhape of the tail
cuneiform : the legs are black.
Pallas fays the irides are yellow: the body dull black : the
vent ferruginous : the wings reach to the middle of the ta il; the
two middle feathers of which are Ihorter than the adjoining
ones.
Pallas’s fpecimen came from Surinam, where I am informed Place.
thefe birds are common.
T HAVE now before me a moft beautiful fpecimen of this bird,
which is full twenty inches in length. The bill two inches and
a quarter long, yellow, and tipped with orange, lhaped as in the
other: the head is not only crefted, but has likewife two (lender
<j feathers
3'
V a r . A.
D escrip t ion.