360 CLASS AVES. 



Ampelis Cayana. PI. Enl. t. 624. A. tersa 

 and A. variegata. 



Shining blue ; neck beneath violet ; quills and tail black ; 

 blue-edged. 



Ampelis Cristata, Vieil. 



Crested ; wings and tail black ; belly and cheeks while; 

 back red. 



Ampelis Maynana. PI. Enl. t. 229. 

 Shining blue ; throat violet, silky. 



Ampelis Fresca, Vieil. 



Body, above black ; brown beneath ; crown, chest, and 

 middle, white ; streaked sides ; violet-brown. Brazils. 



Ampelis Cinerascens, Viel. Vail. Ois. Rare, 

 t. 144. 



Ash ; beneath paler ; quills and tail brownish. South 

 America. 



Ampelis Aureola, Vieil. 

 Purple ; crown, front of wings, chest, and sides, orange- 

 yellow. South America. 



Ampelis Hyphyntha, Vieil. 

 Deep gray ; back greenish ; sides orange-red. 



M. Le Vaillant properly separates from the Cotingas 



The EcHENiLLEURS Ceblepyris, Cuv. 



whose singular character consists in the slightly elon- 

 gated Stalks of the feathers of their croup. They live 

 in Africa and India, on which they gather from the 

 highest trees, and have little of the character of the 



