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Le Loriot a telle rayee, Brif. orn. ii. p. 332. N° 6z.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 265, 

 Merula bicolor Aldrov. Rail Syn. p. 67. N° 11. 

 Aldrovandus his Brafilian Merula, Will. orn. p. 193. §5. 



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 STRIPED. 

 HEADED 



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X> ATHER lefs than a Blackbird. Bill reddifli yellow: head, Description. 



throat, and fore part of the neck, black, tipped with white : 

 hind part of the neck, back, rump, and upper tail coverts, reddifh 

 yellow: the under parts of the body the fame, but paler: wing 

 coverts and quills black, edged with white : tail reddifh yellow t 

 legs yellow : claws reddifh. 

 Country unknown. 



Le Talapiot, Buf. oif. vii. p. 82. — PI. enl. 6oj. 



T ENGTH feven inches. The bill an inch and a quarter in 

 length, ftrait, and pointed at the end : colour yellowifh 

 grey : the head, neck, and breafl, are rufous, fpotted and dafhed 

 with white : back, wings, and tail, rufous : the belly rufous 

 brown: the tail is two inches long*, and rounded at the end; each 

 feather has the fhaft projecting in a point from the tip : legs 

 blackifh. 



This inhabits Guiana, and is not unfrequent in the internal 

 parts of that country. It climbs the trees like a Creeper or Wood- 

 pecker, to both which Buffon feems to think it inclined ; but the 

 ftraitnefs of the bill prevents its being ranked with the firft, and 

 the toes being fituated three before and one behind, forbid it 



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Description. 



Placi. 



• In the Planches enluminets the tail appears to confift of ten feathers 

 IO 



having 



