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(as are thofc of all the Grakle genus *) with lacerated edges : the 

 head and neck are black : the back brown, inclining to ferruginous 

 near the rump : beneath, from the throat to the vent, the plumage 

 is of a dirty yellow : the fides under the wings undulated with 

 black lines : on each fide of the neck is a naked wrinkled band, 

 pafiing lengthwife on the neck, and almoft covered by the adja- 

 cent feathers : the wings are of a foot-colour, inclining more to 

 brown towards the fhoulders : all the prime quills, and part of 

 the (hafts, arewhite at the bafe, making, when the wing is clofed, 

 an oblique bar of white ; but there is no white on the fecondaries: 

 the tail is cuneiform, black, tipped obliquely with white at the end, 

 having moil white on the outer feather, which is black for only 

 one-third of its length from the bafe : its legs -are long, robuft, 

 and black. 



Inhabits South America and Surinam. We are indebted for the Plac*. 



whole of this account to Pallas, who feems to have been the only 

 one who has feen the bird; and which I place here on his 

 authority. 



Le Pioucule de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vii. p. 22.— PI. enl. 621. CLIMBING 



GR. 

 ENGTH ten inches. From the gape to the point of the bill Description. 



nearly one inch and three quarters : the bill itfelf pretty ftout, 

 ilightly bent the whole length, and fomewhat curved at the 

 point; colour black; noftrils fmall, clofe to the bafe : the head 

 and throat are fpotted, rufous and white : the upper part of the 



* Not in Mnnaus ; whofe definition is, Lingua Integra, acutiufcula carnofa; 

 perhaps this therefore is not a Linnaan Gracula. 



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