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B A R B E T. 



the colour black : the forehead is white : the crown of the head 

 and nape black : on the fore part, this colour is prolonged down- 

 wards, and half furrounds the eye : the forehead, fides under 

 the eye, throat, and fore part of the neck, are white, extending in 

 a narrow collar round the nape behind : the lower part of the 

 neck, back, and wing coverts, are black, margined with dufky 

 •white : acrofs the breaft a band of black : the quills and tail are 

 likewife black ; but the feathers of the laft have white tips : the 

 belly and vent are white : the fides and thighs black and white 

 mixed : and the legs dufky. 



Inhabits Cayenne, Placs 



Tamatia noir & blanc, Buf. oif. vii. p. 99. 6, 



Le plus petit Barbu a poitrine noire de Cayenne, PL enl. 688. LESSER PIED 



B. 



f T"*HIS bird is much lefs than the laft, and meafures only five Description. 



inches in length. The bill is pretty large in proportion, 

 and bifid at the tip, as the laft fpecies: the colours of the plu- 

 mage are only two, viz. black and white, like the laft, but are 

 differently difpofed : the upper parts are black, but there is a 

 little mixture of white on the forehead, and a fpot of white on 

 the fcapulars : behind the eye is a ftreak of white : the throat 

 and fides of the neck are white : on the breaft a broad band of 

 black, which extends upwards a little way into the white on the 

 fides of the neck, like a crefcent : from this to the tail the under 

 parts are white, except on the fides under the wings, where. there 

 is a mixture of black : the tail is black, tipped with white : the 

 legs dufky. 



This likewife inhabits Cayenne. . ' Piasi, 



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