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which is a trifle incurvated : noftrils oval near the bate: at the 

 bafe of the upper mandible fpring. four or five flender hairs, 

 pointing forwards : the plumage on the upper parts of the body 

 rufty black, moft of the feathers having a ferruginous tinge on 

 the edges : fides of the head fpotted dufky and white : chin* and 

 all the under parts, dull ferruginous: over the eyes, and rather 

 behind them, is a fhort pale ftreak : quills dufky ; the four firft 

 are ferruginous on the inner webs, in the middle •, moft of the 

 other quills are marked the fame, but are alio ferruginous on the 

 middle of the outer webs, making a bar half acrofs the wing : 

 the legs are dufky: the middle and outer toe connected, as is 

 ufual in this genus : the tail confifts of twelve feathers, even at 

 the end, two inches and three quarters long, and of a plain dufky 

 brown. 



This was received, among fome others, from South America; Place. 



fuppofed originally to have come from Cayenne. I have lately 

 feen a fecond of thefe, which had the upper parts brown inftead 

 of black. ' ' 



12. 



WHITE- 

 CHINNED 



~t ENGTH nine inches. Bill an inch and three quarters long, T - 



much compreffed, three quarters of an inch broad at the bafe, Description. 

 and ending in a point ; near the end it rather bends upwards ; 

 the noftrils are oval, and placed near the bafe : the plumage is 

 brown above : the 'chin white : the fore part of the neck and 

 breaft the fame, but fbmewhat mottled with brown, which . 

 mottling feems to take place round the neck, at the lower part 

 behind,- though net mixed with white: 'belly and vent whiter- 

 tail three inches long,, and rounded at the end: the legs are 

 brown, an inch and a half long ; on the fhins are feven indented I 

 2, oblique-- 



