358 CLASS AVES. 



sidcrable part of their face is denuded of feathers. 

 There is but one species known, which is of Cayenne, 

 as large as a crow, and of the colour of Spanish 

 snuff. 



Corvus Calvus, Gmelin, Vail. O. Amer. 



et Ind. t. 49. Coracina Gymnocephala, Vieil. Pi. 



Enl. t. 521. 



Ferrugineous brown ; forehead and nape, bald, or 

 scarcely feathered ; bill black. 



The Cephalopteres, Geoff., 



on the contrary, have the base of the beak furnished 

 with inclining feathers, which, spreading at their 

 upper parts, produce a large panacle in the form of a 

 parasol. But one species is known of America of the 

 size of the jay. It is black, and the plumes of the 

 lower part of the breast form a sort of hanging. The 

 cephalopterus ornatus of Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xii. t, 

 15. 



Umbelled Chatterer y Ampelis Umbellata, Shaw, N. M. 

 Also the Coracina Ornata of Spix, Braz. t. 49, and 

 Coracina Cephaloptera of Vieillot. PI. Col. t. 255. 



Referred to Coracina by Spix, Vieillot, and Tem- 

 minck. 



The CoTiNGAS (Ampelis,) Lin. 

 have the bill depressed, like the Flycatchers in gene- 

 ral, but in a shorter proportion ; broad and slightly 

 arched. 



Those with the bill stronger, and more pointed, 



