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- tinder one yellowifh : the upper parts of the body are cinereous 

 olive •, the under parts white : the quills are pale rufous : the 

 tail is cuneated, fix inches long; the two middle feathers of the 

 fame colour as the back ; the others black, tipped with white : 

 legs and claws grey brown. 

 Places. This inhabits Carolina in the fummer-time, where it frequents 



the deep thick woods. 



I have alio received it from Jamaica, where I am told it is 

 common. Notwithftanding the fentiments of Buffon, I have 

 fome doubt whether this is not the other fort of Rain-bird of 

 Sloane ; or that his two are but one fpecies, as Linnaus fuppofes. 

 I have never feen but one of the large fort, which anfwered to the 

 firfl-mentioned, or that with the long bill. 



^6. Le Coucou hupe du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 144. N° 19. 



BRASILIAN Le Guira cantara, Buf. oif. vi. p. 407. 



Guira acangatara, Rati Syn. p. 45. N°5. — Will. om. 140. N° 9. t. 22. 



CRESTED 

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Pescription,. CIZE of a Magpie: length fourteen inches and a half. Bill 

 dullifh yellow, an inch long ; the upper mandible a little 

 hooked : irides brown : the whole head covered with feathers, 

 which are brown down the middle, and yellowifh on the fides : 

 thofe of the throat and neck, on the contrary, are yellowifh down 

 the middle, and brown at the fides : back, rump, breaft, belly, 

 fides, thighs, upper and under tail coverts, and beneath the wings, 

 pale yellowifh white : feathers on the crown longifh, forming a 

 creft : quills and tail brown ; the laft tipped with white : legs 

 fea-green. 

 Place. Inhabits Brajilj where it makes a great cry in the woods. This 



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