head to the lower part of the neck behind, each feather has a
ftreak of white down the middle: tips of the middle and larger
wing coverts white, forming two bars on the wing: edge of the
wing, half way from the bend, white; the quills rufous : the
tail cuneiform, ten inches long, of the fame colour as the back;
all the feathers tipped with yellow: the legs black, and not fur-
nilhed with fpurs behind.
This inhabits Mexico, and parts adjacent, where it feeds on
Jnakes: makes an howling kind of noife, and is found on trees
near rivers ; is accounted an unlucky bird. Met with chiefly in
autumn, and is faid to pronounce a found not unlike the word
Hoaftztn. We : learn from others that it may be domefticated,
and'is feen in that ftate among the natives ; and further, that it
feeds on ants, worms, and other infeffs, as well as Jnakes.
Phafianus Motmot, Lin. Syft. i. p. 271. 2.
Le Faifan de la Guiane, Brif. orn. i. p. 270. 3.— PL enl. 146.
Le Katraca, Buf. otf. ii. p. 364.
Motmot, Se&a, vol. i. p. 103. pi. 67. f. 2.
Lev. Muf.
O I Z E o f a 'Fowl: length eighteen inches. Head feathers
elongated, rufous : bill reddilh : the head deep brown :
neck and upper parts olive brown : breaft, belly, Tides, and thighs,
rufous brown : under tail coverts chefnut: quills, and two middle
tail feathers, like the back; the reft of them blackilb, except
the outer, which is rufous: legs blackilh : claws brown.
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana. The ihape of the tail is cuneiform
both in Brijfon’s figure and the PL enl. otherwife it lhould
feem to be the fame with the following bird.
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