434 VARIEGATED CHATTERER. 



blue in some lights appears green. This beautiful 

 species inhabits the province of Mayna, in South 

 America.'* 



VARIEGATED CHATTERER* 



( Ampelis variegata.) 



'Aw. cinerea, gutture carunculis dualus nigris lanceolatis. 



Grey Chatterer, with two black spear-shaped wattles on the 



throat. 

 Ampelis variegata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. J. 841. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 



i. 367. 10. 



Cotinga naevia. Briss. Orn. 2. 354. 9. 

 L'Averano. Buff* Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 457. 

 Variegated Chatterer. Lath* Gen. Syn. 3. 99. 9. 



Tins curious bird is said to make a noise like 

 that of a cracked bell : its voice is as loud as that 

 of the Carunculated Chatterer, and is only uttered 

 during the months of December and January : its 

 beak is black : the throat and fore-part of the 

 neck is ornamented with a number of black fleshy 

 wattles : the feathers of the breast are divided as 

 it were into a kind of furrow : the colour of the 

 head is brown : the neck, breast, belly, back, and 

 thighs, are ash-coloured ; the back being varied 

 with black and the rump with green : the wing- 

 coverts are black, but the greater ones are varied 

 with dull green : legs and quills dusky : tail cine- 



