FEMALE. 
Pracrk AND 
Manners. 
8. 
CARUNCU- 
LATED CH. 
Pu. XL. 
DeEs@RIPTION, 
Female. 
Pace AND 
MaNNERSe 
CHAT TUE ARVEDR. 
at will: this part, the lower part of the back, rump, lower part of 
the belly, thighs, and vent, are of a bright crimfon: the feathers 
on the reft of the body of a dullifh red, with dufky tips: the tail 
crimfon, with the ends black: the legs dirty yellow, and the hind 
part of them hairy. 
The female is of a red brown throughout, but the wings and: 
tail marked at the ends as in the male. 
This bird is found at Cayenne, Guiana, and other parts of South 
America, and has much the fame manners as the Pompadour, but is 
more common. It is called: by the Creoles Oxette, from its cry. 
Le Cotinga blanc, Bri/. era. ii. ps 356. 10. 
——— —— —— on Guirapanga, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 454.—Pl, enh 793-794 
HE length of this elegant fpecies is twelve inches. The bill 
an inch and a half long, and black ; at the bafe is a flefiy 
caruncle, hanging over it, like that of a Turkey Cock, being more 
or lefs dilatable, as far as two inches in length, and may be even 
erected quite upright: the whole plumage of the ma/e is of a pure 
white, except a flight tinge of yellow on the rump, quills, and 
tail: the legs are black. 
The female is furnifhed with the fame caruncle as the male: the 
upper parts of the plumage olive grey: forehead and cheeks 
white: throat grey, edged with olive: breaft and upper part of 
the belly the fame, tipped with yellow: lower part of the belly,. 
and vent, pale yellow : the two middle tail feathers like the back ; 
the others grey, edged with yellow. 
-Thefe birds inhabit Cayenne and Brafl, and are faid to have a 
very loud voice, to be heard half a league off, which is compofed 
merely of two fyllables, iz, av, uttered in a drawling kind of tone, 
I f though 
