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BASCIATED' Eafciated Curucui, Ind. Zool. pi. 5. 



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Description. 



T ENGTH ten inches and a half: weight one ounce and five- 

 eighths. Bill black, thick,, ftrong, and arched, befet with 

 briftles at the bafe : orbits naked, of a deep blue: irides yellow: 

 head and neck dufky black ; palefl on the bread : acrofs the 

 bread is a band of white, beneath that the whole under fide is 

 of a light, reddifh, orange-colour : back tawny : tail coverts grey : 

 wing coverts, and fcapulars, elegantly barred with undulated lines 

 of black and white : quills dufky, ftriped with white on the outer 

 webs: tail very long, unequal, the outer feathers the fhorteft; 

 tip black.: legs dufky.. 

 Ilase. Inhabits Ceylon,, where it !s rare; called by the Cingakfe, Rant- 



van-kondea. It is nearly like that in Brif. iv. 165 ; but the band 

 of the bread, mentioned in the above fpecimen, fhews it to 

 differ from that of Briffbn, which comes from Cayenne* 



a Genus 



