GUIANA G.
Le Mofltvoyau de la Guiane, Buf. oif. vî. p. 549«
Tette-chevre roux de la Guiane, PI. enl. 733.
D e s c r i p t i o n . T E N G T H nine inches. Bill above three quarters of an
inch, and befet with briftles : general colour of the plumage
fulvous, with an irregular mixture of rufous throughout: on
the top of the head, and hind part of the neck, the ftreaks are
longitudinal, but on the upper part of the back oblique, as well
as mixed with fpots of an irregular lhape on the reft of the
upper parts, with a greyilh tinge : the under parts are not much
unlike the upper; but the markings for the moft part placed
tranfverfely : from the gape arifes a band of white, which pafies
along the jaw, ,and under the throat: the quills are black ; the
five or fix firft marked with a white fpot: the tail is three
inches long, and exceeds the wings by one inch.
Place. This inhabits Guiana, and is found among the Ihrubs in the
evenings. It is faid to repeat the three fyllables Mont-voy-au
very diftinflly, whence the name given to it.
In the Britijh Mufeum is a bird much refembling the above; it
is' ten inches in length, and has the white collar round the
throat; befide which there is a cream-coloured bar on fix of the
tail feathers near the end.
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BRASILIAN G .
Le Tête-chevre tacheté du B refil, Brif. orii. ii. p. 483. 6*
L ’Ibijau, Buf. oif. vi. p. 539.— Petto. Gaz• pl. 59. f. 1.— Raii Syn. p. £7.2.
—WM. orn. p. 108.pl. 14. (the lejfer fpectes) bad figure.
D e s c r i p t i o n . g I Z E of a Swallow. Bill and eyes blackifh, furroimded
outwardly with a ring of yellowifh white: the upper parts
of
of the plumage blackifh, marked with fmall white dots mixed
with a little y ellow: the under parts are alfo variegated with
black and white: wings and tail even: legs white: the middle
daw ferrated on the outer edge.
This inhabits Brafil. It is faid frequently to fpread out the
tail in the lhape of a fan.
Le petit Engoulevent tacheté de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vi. p. 540._PI. enl. 734.
^ I Z E of the laft : length eight inches. General colour of the
plumage blackilh, fpotted with rufous and grey : on the fore
part of the neck a half collar of white : the under parts more
inclined to brown than in the laft-defcribed.
Inhabits Cayenne.
L ’Engoulevent de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vi. p. 344.
Crapaud volant de Cayenne, PI. enl. 760.
J ^ E N G T H feven inches and a half. Bill black : irides yellow
: the head is grey, marked with fine lines of black, and
tinged with rufous : hind part of the neck the fame, but more
diftinft : fides of the head rufous, each marked with five ftripes
of black : throat, and fore part of the neck, white : back rufous,
crofied with black ftripes : wing coverts mixed with grey
and black : breaft and belly the fame, but more regularly
marked, and interfperfed with a few fpots of white : lower belly
and thighs whitifh,. fpotted with black : on the wings a bar of
white: quills black; the firft five marked with a white fpot:
the two middle feathers of the tail grey, crofied with five or fix
b la ck ilh
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COLLARED G.
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NECKED G.
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