V a r . A. Le Teteipa, Buf. oif. vol. iy. p. 475.—PI. en}> 821»
D e s c r i p t i q n . J^IZE of the laft; from which it differs in that the whole of the
under parts, as well as thofe above, are of a dark brown ; but
the back part of the head and neck are of a deep rufous. The
bill is partly the fame ; but the legs are paler in colour.
This is found with the laft; and Buffon fuppofes this to be the
male and the former the female.
118. Le Grand Befroi, Buf. oif. iv. p. 470. pL 22.—>Pl. exl. 706. f. 1.
ALARUM THR. Lev, Mu/,
Description. T EN GTH fix inches and a half. Bill black above, white beneath,
and rather ftout, fomewhat bent near the end : the
Female.
colour of the plumage is brown above, and white beneath, marbled
with dufky on the breaft: the tail is fixteen lines long, and even
at the end : legs pale lead-colour, and an inch and a half in
length.
The female is bigger than the male, and the individuals differ
much in colour from one another.
Place and
Manners.
This bird inhabits Cayenne and has a remarkable cry, to be
heard morning and evening, very loud and piercing, like the
larum of a clock, for about an hour each time. This perhaps
may be thought the call of love, which in the colder climates is
obferved in the breeding feafon ; but, as Buffon juftly remarks,
will not be confined to times or feafons in the warmer regions,
being lefs fixed than in colder ones; whence their having this note
at all times of the year may be accounted for. This is efteemed
good food.
Le
Le petit Béfroi, Buf. eif. iv; p. 472*
Fourmilier grivelé de Cayenne, PI, en/. 823. f. I*
HQ.
SPECKLED
THR.
rr«HIS is lefs than the laft, meafuring in length only five inches Description.
and an half. The bill is brown : the upper parts of thé
body olive brown; as are the rump, belly, and vent, but paler:
the chin and throat are white : the breaft and belly the fame,
fpeckled with fmall numerous brown fpots: fides of the neck,
from the eye to the wings, dalhed with (lender white lines, and
fome of the Wing coverts fpotted with pale rufous Or buff: the
legs are pale brown.
This is found in the fame places as the laft. Buffon feems to Place.
think them varieties ; but on cotnparifon this laft feems to have a
ftenderer bill in proportion, and the tail longer, than in the former
fpecies. I l l
Le Palikour, ou Foufmilier, Buf. eif. iv. pi 473.— PI. ail 700. f. r A N ^ TH R .
HTHIS is o fth e fiz e o f a Lark: length fix inches. The bill is d e s c r i p t i o n .
one inch long, black, and ffcrait except at the end,, where
it is a trifie bent the irid.es are reddifh, and the eye placed in a
blue fkin: the upper parts of the bird are rufous brown, margined
with rufous : the tail is very fhort, not one inch in length,
and wholly rufous : on the middle of the back is a- patch of black :
the wings are black; moil of the coverts tipped with rufous
yellow: the baftard wing white: fome of the leffer quills have
brown ends, and the outer edges of others are white :. the chin,
throat, and breaft, are black, wholly furroufided by a mixture of
black'and white from the no'ftrils, palling all round'on each fide
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