inharmonious, except when1 irritated or wounded, wheh it if
harfti and loud. The flefh is much efteemed.
Buffon fuppofes this bird to be the female of the Yacou, or at
leaft a variety; but that this cannot be, the anatomical infpeftioa
will at once determine. The windpipe of this bird has a lingular
ccnftruftion, palling along the neck to the entrance of the
breaft, where it riles on the outfide of the flelh, and, after going
a little way downwards, returns, and then paffes into the cavity
to the lungs. It is kept in its place on the outfide by a mufcular
ligament, which is perceivable quite to the breaft-bone. This
is found to be the cafe in both male and female, and plainly
proves that it differs from the Yacou, whofe windpipe has no fuch>
circumvolution in either fex.
I f this be the bird mentioned by Fermin*, he fays that the
erelt is cuneiform, and of a black and white colour; and ob-
ferves that they are fcarce at Surinam -f.
Bancroft mentions a bird of Guiana by the name of Marrodee,
which he lays is wholly of a brownifh black t the bill the fame •
legs grey. Thefe, he fays, are common, and make a noife nor
unlike the name given it, perching on trees. The Indians imitate
their cry fo exaftly, as to lead to the difcovery of the place
the birds are in, by their anfwering it. The flelh of them is
like that of a Fowl, I think it can be no other than the:
Marail.
* Hiß. of Guiana, p. 17 Si
f It does not feem quite certain, whether he means thfsüpecies or the laft.
G en u s
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G e n u s XLIX. P I N T A D O .
N° 1. Guinea P. N° 2. Mitred P.
Var. A. White-breafted P. 3. Crefted P.
TH E characters of this genus are :
The bill convex, ftrong, and lhort; at the bafe a ca-
runculated cere, in which the noftrils are lodged.
Head and neck naked, llightly befet with briftles.
A horn, reflefted, and large, on the head *.
Wattles hanging from the cheeks.
Tail lhort, pointing downwards.
N um id a M e le a g r i s , Lin. Syji. i . p . 2 7 3 .—Muf. Adolph. Fr. i i . p . 2 7 .
Scop. arm. i . N ° 1 6 5 .— Hafelq. Voy. p. 2 7 4 . N ° 2 4 .— Frifch.
p i . 12 6 .
L a P e in ta d e , Brif. orn. i . p . J76. p i . 18 .—Buf. oif. i i . p . 16 3 , p i . 4 ' '
PL enl. 108.
G u in e y H e n , or P in t a d o , Bail Syn. p . 5 2 8 .— p . 18 2 . 1 7 .—Will. orn. p . 162:
p i . 26. 2 7 .—Sloan: Jam. p . 302.—Brown. Jam. p . 47
Br. Mrif. Lev. Muf.
'T 'H I S is bigger than a large Cock: length twenty-two
inches. The bill an inch and a quarter long, and of a
reddilh horn-colour: the head is bare of feathers, and blueilh;
and'at'the top of the back part is a blueilh red protuberance, of a
conical lhape, and compreffed on the fides : on each fide of the
* The laft fpecies has a creji of feathers inftead of a horn.
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