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food is Infefts, particularly large Beetles ; but the flefh does not 

 prove good for eating. In the fpecimens above mentioned, 

 which came under my infpection, the feathers of the tail appeared 

 to have been worn, by friction, as if one of die habits of thefe 

 birds was to fupport themfelves by the tails, like Woodpeckers. 



It appears to me, that the Tamatia of Marcgrave is more likely 

 to prove this bird, than the little Thrujh of Catejby, which it is con- 

 jectured to be by Brijfon* ; the briftles at the bafe of the bill> 

 therein mentioned, the large head, and flatnefs and broadnefs of 

 the bilk feeming to fix it in this place, rather than with the 

 Thriifloes. As to the pofition of the toes in Willughly's plate, we- 

 muft lay no hold of that, fince errors of the like kind are fre-- 

 quent in old authors. 



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Observation.. 



Barbude Cayenne, Sri/, era. Iv. p. 95. No. 2. pi. 7. f. 1. 

 Le Tamatia atete & gorge rouges, Buf. oif. vii. p. 96. 

 Barbu de Cayenne, PI. enl, 206. f. 1. 



CAYENNE 

 B. 



&IZE of the crefted Lark : length feven inches. The bill above 

 an inch in length, of a dark afh-colour, and a little bent to- 

 wards the tip : the forehead and throat are red : top of the 

 head black and grey, with a gilded glofs -, each feather black 

 in the middle : on each fide of the head a band of white, 

 pafiing over the eye, almoft to the hind head : fides of 

 the head black : the upper parts of the body black : edges 

 of the feathers grey-gold 1 the fore part of the neck, breaft, and 

 belly, yellowifh white : the fides dafhed with cinereous olive, and 



• Vol. ii. p. 212.— There is another Tamatia mentioned by Marcgrave, but 

 Jhis belongs to the Caucroma genus of Linnauu 



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