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Genus IBYCTEE fVieillot.J 



IBYCTER ATER (Vieillot.) 

 BLACK CABACABA. 



This species is a native of tropical South America, extend- 

 ing across the continent from Quito westward to Guiana and 

 Brazil eastward. I am not acquainted with the exact limits of its 

 range to the south and north, neither have I any definite infor- 

 mation as to its habits, except the following which is given in 

 VieiUot's " Galerie des Oiseaux": — " It feeds on fruits, seeds, 

 and sometimes on insects, such as ants, grasshoppers, &c. 

 Being but little wild, it is easily approached ; it nests on trees, 

 and lays from thi'ee to foiir eggs, which are round and white." 



This species is figured in pi. 5 of the above-mentioned 

 work, and also in Temminck's "Planches Coloriees," pi. 37 

 and 342. 



SPECIMENS OF IBTCTER ATER. 



No. 1. S adult (G) Mr. Verreaux. 



No. 2. nearly adult... Eiver Amazon (G) Mr. Stevens. 



No. 3. adult Quito (G) Mr. Gould. 



IBYCTER AMERICANUS (Boddaert.) 



IBYCTER FORMOSUS (Latham.) 



EilD-THROATED CABACABA. 



This species, which is decidedly a forest bird, is an in- 

 habitant of tropical America, extending on the eastern side of 

 South America as far south as the fifteenth degree of south 

 latitude, whUe on the western it has been observed as far 



