Place and
Manners. This inhabits Cayenne and the deep forefts of Guiana ; and has
the general habits of the reft : but beiides thefe, fome peculiar to
itfelf. It never mixes with the others, though the fame food fuf-
fices i t ; being met with in fmall flocks of half a dozen, and has
a lingular cry; all together giving an idea of a chime of three
bells of different tones, and very loud. It is fuppofed that each
bird has thefe three tones in itfelfj and not that they are different
in each bird; but this is not certain. This cry they make often
for whole hours without ceafing.
I do not find that the bird is found in very great plenty ; perhaps
on account of the difficulty of accefs to the place of its.
refort.
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BLACKWINGED
THR*
Description.
Le Bambla, Buf. oif. iv. p. 479.—PI. enl. 703. f. 2.
g I Z E of a Sparrow : length five inches and a half. Bill
ftrait, except at the tip, where it is a little curved'; the colour
black: the upper part of the head, body, and rump, are mottled
rufous brown : the under parts pale afh-colour, mottled with
dufky: the wings are black, with a white band acrofs them : the
tail is half an inch only in length, and dufky: the legs are
blackifh brown.
Place. This is found ox. Cayenne, where it is very rare. The manners,
are unknown.
116.
WHITE-EARED
THR.
Le Fourmilier a oreilles blanches, Buf. oif. iv. 477.—PI. enl. 822.
Description. C I Z E of a Sparrow: length four inches and three quarters.
The bill is dufky, almoft three quarters of an inch in length,
and rather flout: the top of the head is rufous brown,-communi-
10 eating
eating with a collar of the fame, half an inch broad, on the
bread: the chin and throat are black: from behind the eye defends
on each fide the neck a gloffy white ftreak, compofed of
elongated feathers, and broader than the reft | the lower part of
the neck, the back, wings, and tail, are mixed rufous olive brown:
the belly, thighs, and vent, are white : the legs are dufky : the
tail is an inch and a quarter long, and the wings reach to the end
of it.
The female has the head and upper parts like the male: from
the gape a greenilh band paffes through the eye, under the white
ear feathers : the chin and throat are white, and the rufous band
on the bread is much broader: the reft of the under parts and
legs as in the male.
Thefe inhabit Cayenne with the others,, and have, like them>
the general manners of the whole, race of Ant-eaters.
Female.
PLACB.
Le Colma, BHif. oif. iv. p. 475*— en^’ 7^3* THR.
T ENGTH near feven inches. Bill nearly blackifh : the upper D e s c r i p t i o n .
parts of the body, wings, and tail, are rufous brown, with a
collar of rufous at the back part of the neck juft below the hind-
head I at the bafe of the noftrils is a fpot of white 1 the chin,
and throat are white; the laft mottled with black : the breaft is
greyifh brown; and the belly, thighs, and vent, cinereous,: the tail
is fhort, about an inch and a quarter long : the legs reddifh
brown.
Some of thefe differ in wanting the rufous mark at the nape of
the neck. ' P lace,
Inhabits Cayenne.
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