i C H A T T E R E R .
Fe male.
• Place and
Manners.
8.
CARUNCU-
LATED CH.
Fl. XL.
Description.
Female.
Place and
Manners*
at will: this part, the lower part of the back, rump, lower part of
the belly, thighs, and vent, are of a bright crimfon : the feathers
on the reft: of the body of a dullifti red, with dulky tips : the tail
crimfon, with the ends black : the legs dirty yellow, and the hind
part of them hairy.
The female is of a red brown throughout, but the wings and
tail marked at the ends as in the male.
This bird is found at Cayenne, Guiana, and other parts of South
America, and has much the fame manners as the Pompadour, but is
more common. It is called by the Creoles Ouette, from its cry..
Le Cotinga bJanc, Brif. trn. ii. p. 356. 10.
— — — ou Guirapanga, Buf. oif. hr. p. 454.— PI, enl. 793. 7941.
* p H E length of this elegant fpecies is twelve inches. The bill
an inch and a half long, and black ; at the bale is a flelfty
caruncle, hanging over it, like that of a Turkey Cock, being more
or lefs dilatable, as far as two inches in length, and may be even
erefted quite upright: the whole plumage of the male is of a pure
white, except a flight tinge of yellow on the rump, quills, and
ta il: the legs are black.
The female is furnilhed with the fame caruncle as the male: the
upper parts of the plumage olive grey: forehead and cheeks
white: throat grey, edged with olive: breaft and upper part of
the belly the fame, tipped with yellow: l'ower part of the belly,,
and vent, pale yellow : the two middle tail feathers like the back;
the others grey, edged with yellow.
Thefe birds inhabit Cayenne and Braftl, and are faid to have a
very loud voice, to be heard half a league off, which is compofed
merely of two fyllables, in, an, uttered in a drawling kind of tone,
1 though