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middle toe, sometimes shorter; internal and external toes united to the 

 middle toe the length of the second joint; second quill the longest. 



Ampelis Cotinga. — The Purple-Breasted Chatterer. Plate xxxii*. tiir. 7. 

 Bright cobalt-blue above, and beautiful purple beneath ; throat with darker 

 clouds; wings and tail black. Eight inches and a half long. Inhabits ISraziU 



GCTJMilS.— CASMARYHNCHOS.— TemmzncA;. 



Generic Character. — Bill broad, considerably depressed, horny, and notch- 

 ed at the point, soft and flexible at the base; with a large nasal furrow ; 

 lower mandible thin and flexible ; nostrils large, ovaJ, open, placed near the 

 point of the bill, provided with small feathers; tarsus longer than the mid- 

 dle toe ; fourth and fifth quills longest. 



Casmaryhnchos carunculatus. — The Carunculated Chatterer. Plate xxxii*. 

 fig. 8. White, with the rump, quills, and tail, pale yellow; forehead with- 

 out feathers ; bill black, with a fleshy caruncle at its base; legs black. 

 Twelve inches long. Inhabits Brazil. 



Caamaryhnchosvariegatus. — TheVariegated Chatterer. Plate xxix**. fig. 7, 

 Upper parts and thighs pale cinereous ; head, to bottom of nucha, dull chest- 

 nut-browii ; tergum dull green ; wings blue-black ; bill and legs slate-colour ; 

 irides orange-yellow ; chin with several long fleshy wattles. Seven inches 

 long. Inliabits Brazil. 



Genus 19.— PROCNIAS.— /ffig^er. 



Generic Character. — Bill broader than the forehead, sides considerably 

 dilated, tip notched and much compressed, ridge slightly raised at the base ; 

 nostrils basal, tubular, margined by a membranous ring ; tarsus longer than 

 the middle toe ; second and third quills longest. 



Procnias ventrabs. — The Blue Berry.Eater. Plate xlvii*. fig. 2. Azure 

 blue above, forehead and jugulum black; abdomen vv'hite ; hypochondria 

 with transversal dusky stripes. Si.x inches long. Inhabits Brazil. 



Genus 20.— RUPICOLA.— Cuwer. 



Generic Character. — Bill of middle size, strong, slightly arched, bent up. 

 wards at the point, and notched ; lower mandible parallel, and acute ; nos. 

 trils lateral, ovate, hidden by the feathers of the tuft ; legs strong ; tarsus 

 length of the middle toe, and partly covered with feathers ; the external toe 

 attached to a little beyond the second phalange ; first quill filiform, and con- 

 siderably longer than the rest. 



Rupicola elegans.— The Elegant Rupicola, or Hoopoe Hen. Plate xxxvii**. 

 fig. 8. Saffron-orange, quills brown, with a white bar across them ; upper 

 coverts erect and vaulted ; tail fan-shaped, dusky, bordered with dull yellow; 

 head surmounted by a semicircular erect crest, edged with lemon-yellow, 

 within which is a fillet of lilac-colour ; legs lemon- yellow. Ten inches long. 

 Inhabits South America. 



Genus 21..- PHIB ALURA.— Vieillol. 



Generic Character. — Bill very short, somewhat conical, and arcuated 

 above, sides dilated ; upper mandible notched at the point, under mandible 

 ptraight ; with a small nasal furrow ; nostrils a little above the base, cover- 

 ed by a membrane, and surrounded by a narrow elevated edge ; first and 

 second quills longest ; tail long, slender, and forked ; tarsus about the samu 

 length as the middle toe. 



