PROCNIAS cucullata. 

 Hooded Berry-eater, 



Generic Character. — See PI. 21. 



Specific Character. 



P. corpore, collo, pectojc 7iigro cucullata ; tergo Jusco, alls caudaqtte nigria ; 

 tegminum apice, pectoris laterihus, et corpore suhtus Jlavis ; cupife sub- 

 cristato. 



Head, neck and fore-part of the breast hooded with black; back brown, 

 wings and tail black; tip of the wing-covers, sides of the breast and 

 body beneath yellow; head subcrested. 



1 AIM indebted for this new bird to Miss E. Yeates, who received 

 it with a few others from some part of Brazil : it seems to con- 

 nect the genera of Ampelis and Procnias, having the bill much 

 less dilated at the base than any of the latter ; it however has a 

 close similitude to Procnias melanocephalus (PI. 25.), which 

 seems further removed from the true Chatterers, 



Total length eight inches and three quarters. Bill in extreme 

 length near an inch ; the colour dark cinereous ; the base fur- 

 nished with bristles something resembling the Chatterers : the 

 opening of the nostrils large, round, terminal, and nearly naked ; 

 the feathers on the crown lengthened ; the whole head, neck, and 

 fore-part of the breast black, bordered above by a narrow collar 

 of yellow ; back and scapulars brown, rump olive ; sides of the 

 breast, inner covers, and under parts uniform yellow ; wing-covers 

 black margined with olive, those on the shoulders tipt with brown, 

 the rest with yellow ; quills and tail black margined with olive. 

 Wings four inches and three-quarters long, the first quill very 

 short, the third longer than the second. Tail four inches long. 

 PI 37. 



