Place and
Manner*.
inches in length; colour of it black : irides brown: the plumage
on theupper parts is wholly cinereous; the middle of each feather
brown, which is in ftreaks on the head and neck,'on the back
oblong, and on the rump tranfverfe ; the under parts white ; but
the throat and bread; ftreaked with afiircolour: wings alh-co-
lour, eroded with a bar of white: quills brown; the ihaft of
the firft white, the fecond cinereous: fecondaries tipped with
white: the two middle tail feathers are cinereous; the reft
the fame, varied with whitilh, but not banded: legs reddifh
brown : toes fomewhat palmated at the bafe : claws blackifh.
Male and female alike.
This inhabits, during the fummer, the neighbourhood of the
Cajpian Sea, particularly about the mouth of the river Terek,
where it breeds. Met with in flocks in the marfhes, efpecially
on the borders of fait lakes, and feeds on infedls. This feems
not perfedtly confonant to any genus : feems a link between the
Snipe and Avofet: but, in our opinion, the bill turning downwards
at the point, feems to forbid the placing it with the latter
; though the feet being palmated gives it great affinity.
3Z*
CAURALE SN.
Le Caurâîe, ou petit Paon des Rofes, Buf. Oif, viii. p. 169. pl. 14.— BU
Enl. .782.
Lev» Muf,
D escription* ' p H IS is a moft beautiful fpecies : is about the fize of the
Whimbrel, and meafures fifteen inches in length. The bill is
near two inches long, of a yellowifh green, and bends a very trifle
downwards : the head and fides below the eyes are black : over
the eye is a ftreak of white.; and the black is bounded beneath
by white, pairing from the chin and throat to the hind head; in
t h e
the middle of this white, on each fide, in' the diredtion of the
jaw, is a black flender line: the neck and breaft are rufous,
ftriated tranfverfely-with flender black lines: back the fame, but
more grey, croflfed with broad bars of black: fcapulars grey,
banded with white :- the wings are cream-colour, mottled with
black near the fhoulder, and beautifully banded with rufous red;
in the middle, and at fome dlftance from the end of the quills, in
both places accompanied with black : the tail is grey, mottled
and ftriated acrofs with black interrupted bands; and near the end
crofted with a broad bar of black, bounded above with rufous
red : the belly, thighs, and vent, are white : legs yellow, and rather
fhort for the-fi2e of the bird.
This inhabits the interior parts of Guiana, but is not common. P la
It frequents the fides of rivers : is a folitary bird, and 4cnown by
a kind of plaintive whittle, which the natives imitate, in order to
decoy the bird within reach. The fpecimen in the Leverian
Mufeum is a moft perfedt and fine-coloured one. I have feen
three or four others, which were lefs brilliant in their plumage.
Hence we may fufpedt that the male may differ from the female
merely by this circumftance; and that Sir AJhton Lever’s bird
is a male. The inhabitants of Guiana give this fpecies the name
of Paon des Rofes. One which came under my infpedtion had a
label affixed, with the-name of le Pard.
G e n u s