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The female is faid to want the red on the fide of the jaw, which Female. 



circumftance inclines me to think, that the fpecimen alluded to, 

 in the Leverian Mufeum, was of this fex. The bill in this was 

 pale, being black only at the bafe : creft buff-colour : rump, 

 lower part of the belly, fides, and thighs, dirty yellow : vent 

 pale ruft-colour : infide of the quills marked with both dark and 

 pale fpots : quills and tail dufky : the reft of the plumage as in 

 the male. 



Thefe inhabit Cayenne, Guiana*, and other parts of America. Places. 



Le Pic a cravate noire, Buf. olf. vii. p. 35. 

 Pic a cravate noire de Cayenne, PL enl. 863. 



ClZE of the laft. The bill is pale : head, throat, and hind part 

 of the neck, orange yellow : the lower part of the laft behind, 

 and the fore part of the neck and breaft, are black : the head is 

 crefted : back and wings bright rufous ; on the laft are here and 

 there fome fpots of black; as alfo on the tail, the end of which is 

 black : the quills are marked with black : the belly and vent 

 are of a pale ferruginous buff: and the legs lead-colour. Buffon 

 fays, the tail in the PI. enl. is made too fhort. 



This fpecies inhabits Cayenne and Guiana ; the natives of the 

 laft call it Toucoumari. The three laft are much allied to each 

 other; and our author fuppofes them the fame which are found 

 at St. Domingo, fince P. Charlevoix fays, that on looking out for 



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Description. 



Places. 



* Sahrne mentions it as a bird of Guiana, orn. p. 109. N° 11. 



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