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marked on the upper part with a black ftripe, the whole length . 

 the lower mandible wholly black, the edges deeply ferrated : the 

 irides yellow : the eye furrounded by a naked yellowifh fkin : the 

 head, throat, and neck, are black : on each fide of the head is a 

 fmall cheftnut fpot, juft above the ears : the upper part of the 

 back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, are dull green : lower part of 

 the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, bright red : breaft, belly, 

 and fides, brimftone, with a mixture of red on the upper part of 

 the breaft : on the belly is a bright red band, eight lines in 

 breadth : the thighs, and under tail coverts, are olive green, ir- 

 regularly mixed with- red, and deep yellow : quills blackifh, with 

 dull green edges : tail wedge-fhaped, the outer feathers being 

 fhorter than the middle ones by above three inches and a half; 

 the colour dull green above, and paler beneath : legs blackifh 

 green : claws black. 



Inhabits Brafil, Surinam, and Cayenne. Linnaus defcribes it as Place.- 



having the upper part and tip of the upper mandible black, 

 whitifti on the fides, with a white arch at the root; the lower one 

 black : head, wings, and tail, black : breaft and belly yellow and 

 crimfon, with a black roundifh mark on the middle of the breaft, 

 and another fuch like tranfverfe one on the beginning of the 

 belly : the rump crimfon : thighs rufous. 



That thefe varieties do occur, I am certain,, as I have feen fome 

 birds without the red band on the breaft, and the bill of others of 

 a plain duiky colour. 



In two of thefe birds, fent over as of different fexes, which; 

 came under my infpection, the difference was merely in the one 

 being brown where the other was black, the yellow in the feveral 

 parts, of a deeper hue, and the feathers at the bafe of the thighs 



edged. 



