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THE TRUMPETER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill fliort, upper mandible a little convex. 

 Nostrils oblong, funk, and pervious. 

 Tongue cartilaginous, flat, torn, or fringed at the end. 

 Legs naked a little above the knees. 



Toes, three before ; one fmall behind, with a round protuberance beneath 

 the hind toe, which is at a fnnall diftance from the ground. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &:c. 



Black Trumpeter, with grey-brown back j breaft glofled with blue-green ; 

 orbits of the eyes red and naked. 



L'Agami 



Buff. ois. 4. p. 487. /. 23. 



PI. enl. 169. 



TH E curious bird reprefented on the prefent plate has obtained its com- 

 mon title from an extraordinary circumftance in the conformation of its 

 internal organs, in confequence of which it is enabled at pleafure to produce 

 an uncommon found, not ill refembling the voice of a wood -pigeon, but more 

 abrupt, or interrupted. This particularity is moft obfervable after the bird lias 



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