264 wy. AVES. 
There. is i, SNe species in America extremely similar, but 
rather ‘smaller, Ampelis garrulus, b, Lin.; Amp. Americana, 
Wils. I, vii, 13 Bombycilla carolinensis, Wils.; Bomb. cedrorum, 
* Vieill., Gal. 1185 Vaill., Ois. de Par., I, pl. 50, 
‘, ere is also one in Japan, B. phanicoptera, Tem.; Col. 450, 
which has no appendages to the wings, and the tips of whose 
tail and little wing-coverts are red. 
Hofmansegg and beer, with equal propriety, separate from the 
Crown-Birds, 
> 
~ Procnias, Hofman. 
The commissure of whose beak, which is acaker and more de- 
pressed, extends under the Ton They inhabit America and feed on 
Insects. Ay OR” "4 ' 
We may subdivide them still ‘more. 
The Proontas, properly ogni have the throat furnished with 
feathers. P 
One species, d4mpelis Ciremeulien. Gm.,  Enk. 7935 is di stin- 
guished by a long, soft caruncle on the base ~ of bis bef In 
the perfect state it is white, at other times’ gre ni 
a2 ; 
The Averanos (Casmaruyncuos, Tem.) are bes . 
throat. 
In one species, the naked portion of the male’ °s thre 
vered with fleshy caruncles. It is the ane of 
457; Amp. variegata, Lin.; Col. 51. 
Another, Prach. araponga, Pr. Max. Col. 368, and 383, , or - 
Casmar ecarunculatus, Spix, 4,only has some very staal, 
scattered feathers in that place. These birds are white i eir 
perfect state; the young male and the female are sedan 
Finally, directly after the Crown-Birds, should come 
Gymnopervs, Geoff. 
Where the beak is but very little stronger; but the neck is partly 
naked, and the head covered with velvet feathers. The species 
known is also from South America. It is mostly frugivorous, is of 
the size of a Pigeon, black, with bluish wings; it is the Gracula nu- 
dicollis, SW; the Corvus nudus and the Gracula a Gm. Enl. 
609.(1) 
(1) The species of Vaill., Ois. de PAmeriq. et des Indes, pl. xlv, and xlvi, is 
perhaps different. 
N.B. Vieillot unites Graculus, Gymnoderus and Cephalopterus, in his genus Co- 
RACINA, 
