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under one yellowilh ; the upper parts of the body are cinereous
olive; the under parts white; the quills are pale rufous : the
tail is cuneated, fix inches long; the two middle feathers of the
fame colour as the back ; the others black, tipped with white:
—legs and claws grey brown.
This inhabits Carolina in the fummer-time, where it frequents
the deep thick woods.
I have alfo received it from Jamaica, where I am told it is
common. Notwithftanding the fentiments of Buffon, I have
fome doubt whether this is not the other fort of Rain-bird of
Sloane j or that his two are but one fpecies, as Linnaus fuppofes.
I have never feen but one of the large fort, which anfwered to the
firfl-mentioned, or that with the long bill.
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Le Coucou hupe du Breiil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 144. N° 19.
Le Guira cantara, Buf. oif. vi. p. 407.
Guira acangatara, Rail Syn. p. 45. N°5.—Will. orn. 140. N° 9. t. 22.
D escrip t ion. g I Z E of a Magpie: length fourteen inches and a half. Bill
dullilh yellow, an inch long; the upper mandible a little
hooked : irides brown: the whole head covered with feathers,
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which are brown down the middle, and yellowilh on the fides:
thofe of the throat and neck, on the contrary, are yellowilh down
the middle, and brown at the fides: back, rump, breaft, belly,
fides, thighs, upper and under tail coverts, and beneath the. wings,
pale yellowilh white; feathers on the crown longilh, forming a
crefl:: quills and tail brown; the laft tipped with white: legs
fea-green.
Inhabits Brajil, where it makes a great cry in the woods. This
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is faid to have but, eight feathers in the ta il; but, as I never heard
of any bird which had fewer than ten, I lhall wait for further confirmation
of this circumftance before I give credit to it.
Le Coucou du Mexique, Sri/, cm. iv. p. 119. N° 6.
Le Quapaâol, ou le Rieur, Bu/ ci/, vi. p. 408. N° 4.
The Laughing Bird, or Quapaélototl, Will. cru. 387.— Rail Syn. p. 174.
J^ EN G TH fixteen inches. Head and parts above fulvous :
bill blueifh black : irides white : throat, fore part of the
neck, and bread:, cinereous : belly, fides, thighs, and under tail
coverts, black : tail of a blackilh fulvous colour, half the length
of the bird.
Inhabits Mexico. The cry of this bird is like that o f human
laughter; on which account it is dreaded by the Indians, as in-
aufpicious and ominous, foreboding fome evil or mifchief.
Cuculus nsevius, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 170. N° 9.
Le Coucou tacheté de Cayenne, Brif. cm. iv. p. 127. N° 11. pl. 9. f. 1.
— iY. enl. 812.
Le Coucou brun varié de roux, Buf. oif. vi. p. 411.
SIZE of a Fieldfare : length ten inches and three quarters. Bill
three quarters of an inch ; the upper mandible black on the
top, and rufous on the fides ; the under wholly rufous : general
colour of the plumage rufous in two lhades ; the under parts rufous
white : the feathers on the crown are of a deep brown, and
pretty long, with rufous tips, a'ntf fome of them margined with
rufous : hind part of the neck rufous grey; down the lhafts deep
3 Z î brownI
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