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Trogon viridis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 167. N° 3. (3. 



Le Couroucou verd a ventre blanc de Cayenne, Brif. arn. lv. p. i>o. N° 3. 

 i?»/ r . 04/; vi. p. 293 *. 



Var. A. 

 WHITE- 

 BELLIED 

 C. 



npHIS bird is a trifle fmaller than the former, and differs only DEscRipfiow. 



in having the belly white, inftead of yellow: the end half 

 of the tail feathers is white, feparated obliquely, but indented 

 with the other colour, as in the laft. 



Trogon ftrigilatus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 167. N° 1. 



Le Couroucou cendre de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 165. pi. 16. f. i. 



Couroucou de la Guiane, PI. enl. 765. — Buf. oif. vi. p. 293. 



CINEREOUS 

 C. 



'"Tp'HIS is fomewhat bigger than a Blackbird. Length twelve 

 : inches and a half. The bill is one inch long, and of a deep 

 afh-colour : the general colour of the body is very deep afh; ftill 

 deeper on the thighs and legs : the belly and under tail coverts 

 of a fineorange yellow: fcapulars, upper wing coverts, and the 

 greater ones next the body, blackifh, tranfverfely ftriated with 

 narrow whitifh lines ; thofe farther! from the body plain : under 

 wing coverts deep a(h, edged with white : greater quills blackifh ; 

 the five firft have white edges for two-thirds of the length j the 

 fecondaries blackifh, marked with white on the outer edge, but 

 white at the bafe : tail blackifh j the fix middle feathers fix 



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* Buffon mentions one of thefe with a whitifh belly, which had a ftrong citron 

 tinge in many places ; which would naturally lead one to think, that this was a 

 mere variety of the yellow- bellied one ; fee Hift. des oif. vi. p. 294. 



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