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This species is also found in Canada, where it is called Recol- 

 lety probably, as Dr. Latham supposes, from the colour and ap- 

 pearance of its crest resembling the hood of an order of friars 

 of that denomination; it has also been met with by several of 

 our voyagers on the north-west coast of America, and appears 

 to have an extensive range. 



Almost all the ornithologists of Europe persist in considering 

 this bird as a variety of the European Chatterer (A. garrulus), 

 with what justice or propriety, a mere comparison of the two 

 will determine. The European species is very nearly twice the 

 cubic bulk of ours; has the whole lower parts of an uniform 

 dark vinous bay; the tips of the wings streaked with lateral 

 bars of yellow; the nostrils covered with bristles;* the feathers 

 on the chin loose and tufted; the wings black; and the markings 

 of white and black on the sides of the head different from the 

 American, which is as follows: Length seven inches, extent 

 eleven inches; head, neck, breast, upper part of the back, and 

 wing-coverts, a dark fawn colour; darkest on the back, and 

 brightest on the front; head ornamented with a high pointed al- 

 most upright crest; line from the nostril over the eye to the 

 hind head velvety black, bordered above with a fine line of 

 white, and another line of white passes from the lower mandi- 

 ble; chin black, gradually brightening into fawn colour, the fea- 

 thers there lying extremely close; bill black, upper mandible 

 nearly triangular at the base, without bristles, short, rounding 

 at the point, where it is deeply notched; the lower scolloped at 

 the tip and turning up; tongue, as in the rest of the genus, broad, 

 thin, cartilaginous, and lacerated at the end; belly yellow; vent 

 white; wings deep slate, except the two secondaries next the 

 body, whose exterior vanes are of a fawn colour, and interior 

 ones white; forming two whitish strips there, which are very 

 conspicuous; rump and tail coverts pale light blue, tail the same, 

 gradually deepening into black, and tipt for half an inch with 

 rich yellow. Six or seven, and sometimes the whole nine, se- 



* Turton. 



