CHATTERER. 
though fome have compared it to the found of a bell. The Bra- 
Jilian name is Guira-panga, or Quira-panga. 
Le Cotinga tacheté, Brif. orn. ii. p. 354: 9- 
L’Averano, Buf. cif. iv, p. 457. 
Guira-punga, Raii Syn. p. 166. 4.—Will, orm p. 199. pl. 38. 
HIS is much larger than our Miffel Thrufh. The bill is an 
inch long, and black; the gape very wide: irides blue 
‘black: under the throat, and on the fore part of the neck, are 
‘black flefhy wattles, an inch long, hanging down before, of the f- 
gure of the point of a /pear: down the middle of the breait the 
feathers divide, giving the appearance of a furrow: the head is 
covered with dark brown feathers: the neck, breaft, belly, back, 
and thighs, are afh-coloured, having a mixture of black on the 
back, and of green -on the rump: the leffer wing coverts are 
black; the greater, black and dull green mixed: quills blackith: 
tail afh-coloured, mixed with blackifh and green: legs blackith. 
The female is lefs than the male: the plumage wholly of a 
‘blackifh colour, with a mixture of brown and green, verging moft 
‘to brown on the'back, and to green beneath: the wattles on the 
throat and neck are wanting in this fex. 
This fpecies inhabits Brajl, and has a loud voice, which may be 
‘heard a great way off; but this is only for about fix weeks, in the 
height of fummer *, in December and Yanuary: it is of two kinds; 
one like.that ofa hammer ftriking a wedge, the other fimilar to 
the noife of a cracked bell. During the reft of the year, it is 
wholly filent. 
* Hence called by the Portuguefe 4ve de Verano, or Summer Bird. 
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