G e n u s LV. T R U M P E T E R .
i . Gold-breafted Trumpeter,
BI L L moderate; the upper mandible a little convex.
Noftrils oblong, funk, and pervious.
Tongue cartilaginous, flat, fringed at the end.
Legs naked a little above the knees.
Toes three before, one behind j the laft fmall, with a round
protuberance beneath it, which is at a little diftance from the
ground.
Pfophia crepitans, Lin. Syft. i, p. 263, j.
Grus Pfophia, Pallas Spic. 4. pi. 1. .
LeFaifan des Antilles, Brif. orn. i. p. 269.
L ’Agami, Buf. cif. iv. p. 487. pi. 23 — PI. tnl. 169.
Le Caracara «, Buf. oif. ii. p. 292. i— Hiß. des Ant. vol. ii. ch. 5. § 8. ?
L ’Oifeau trompette, Defer. Surin. ii. p. 162.
Lev. Muf.
I Z E of a large Fowl; but has a long neck, and Hands very
high on the legs: length twenty inches. General colour of
the plumage black : the feathers of the head very Ihort and
downy : bill dull yellowilh green, with the end duiky (in fome
# A different bird, by the name of Caracara, is mentioned in vol. i, p. 63.
©f this work.
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I.
GOLDBREASTED
TR.
Pt. L XVIII.
DsSCRIfTION.
Vor. II. birds