RED-WINGED CHATTERER. 431 



THE Pompadour Chatterer is seven inches and 

 a half in length : its beak is brown : the prevail- 

 ing colour of its plumage is of a glossy purple t 

 the feathers of the greater wing-coverts are nar- 

 row, long, and hollowed beneath, with their shafts 

 white, and the tips bare of w r ebs ; they hang over 

 the quills, which are white, except the tips of a 

 few of the primaries, which are brown : the legs 

 are black : this species varies in having a mixture 

 of brown with the purple ; the under tail-coverts 

 rose-colour, and the tail brown : it has also oc- 

 curred entirely of a grey brown. 



Common in Cayenne and Guiana : it makes its 

 appearance in the latter place in March and Sep- 

 tember : it feeds on fruits, and builds its nest in? 

 high trees, near the margins of a large river. 



RED-WINGED CHATTERER. 

 (Ampelis phcenicea.) 



AM. caruteo nigra, alarum tectricibus minoribusful'oo-coccineis. 

 Blue-black Chatterer, with the lesser wing-coverts of a fulvous 



crimson. 



Ampelis phcenicea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 367. 12, 

 Red-winged Chatterer. Lath. Syn. Sup. 146. 10. 



SAID to inhabit Africa : length about seven 

 inches and a half: the beak and legs black : the 

 prevailing colour of the plumage blue black, with 



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