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though fome have compared it to the found of a bell. The Bra-
ftlian name is Guira-panga, or Quira-panga.
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Le Cotinga tacheté, Brif. orn. ii. p. 354. 9.
L’Averano, Buf. oif. iv. p. 457.
Guira-punga, Rati Sjn. p. 166. 4.— Will, orn. p. 199. pi. 38.
VARIEGATED
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^T'HIS is much larger than our Miflel Thrulh. The bill is an Description,
inch long, and black ; the gape very wide: irides blue
Hack: under the throat, and on the fore part of the neck, are
black flelhy wattles, an inch long, hanging down before, of the figure
of the point of a fpear: down the middle of the breafi: the
feathers divide, giving the appearance of a furrow : the head is
covered with dark brown feathers : the neck, breafi:, belly, back,
and thighs, are alh-coloured, having a mixture of black on the
back, and of green on the rump : the lefier wing coverts are
black; the greater, black and dull green mixed : quills blackilh;
tail alh-coloured, mixed with blackilh and green : legs blackilh.
The female is lefs than the male: the plumage wholly of a
blackilh colour, with a mixture of brown and green, verging moll
to brown on the back, and to green beneath: the wattles on the
throat and neck are wanting in this lex.
This 'Ipecies inhabits Braftl, and has a loud voice, which may be
heard a great way off; but this is only for about fix weeks, in the
height of fummer *, in December and January: it is of two kinds;
one like .that of a hammer linking a wedge, the other fimilar to
the noife of a cracked bell. During the reft of the year, it is
wholly filent.
* -Hence called by the Eortuguefe Amt Ac Vtraio, or Summer Bird.
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