494 B A R B E T. 



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BELLIED Barbu a ventre tachete de Cayenne, PL eMX'ftff. g ,; 



B. Tamatia Brafil, Marcgr.—Raii Sjn. p. 65. N° 6 i—WUU urn- p, 190, t. 59? 



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Description. '"THIS is fix inches and a half in length. The bill is fifteen lines 

 long; the upper mandible bent at the end, and, as it were, 

 divided in two at the point; the colour black; it is half covered 

 with briftles, which point forwards, and arife at the bafe : the head 

 is large, in proportion to the reft of the body ; the crown and fore 

 part of the head incline to rufous : on the neck is' a collar extending 

 half round, compofed of a mixture of black and rufous : on each 

 fide of the head, behind the eyes, is a pretty large black fpot : 

 the throat is orange, and the reft of the plumage beneath rufous 

 white, fpotted with black; that of the upper part of the body 

 rufous brown : the legs are black. I have lately feen two fpeci- 

 mens, in which the half collar at the back part of the neck had a 

 mixture of white, and over the eyes an obfcure whitilh line ; 

 but in other things like the above. 

 Places and This bird is met with both at Cayenne and Brqfil. The habit 



Manners. correfponds with that of the whole family. It is a clumfy, ill- 

 made bird ; and its manners exactly fuit its Ihape, being a folitary, 

 penfive, filent animal, afFefting only fuch places as are fartheft 

 from habitations ; being found chiefly in the woods, where it 

 choofes fome low branch well covered with twigs and foliage ; on 

 this it perches, with its large head refting between its fhoulders, 

 for along time together, and, as its difpofition to action is very 

 little, may be eafily killed, as it will fuffer itfelf to be Ihot at 

 feveral times before it attempts to make its efcape. The common 

 5 food 



