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Gobe-moucheron, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 553. 
HIS is a trifle bigger than the laft, but both of them 
fmaller than the Golden-crefted Wren. The plumage is deep 
olive grey, with a greenifh tinge on the upper part of the back 
and belly: the wings are blackifh, here and there ftreaked with 
yellowifh white. ; 
Both thefe are found in various parts of South America, which 
abounds with the greateft variety of this genus, as a proper 
check to the myriads of infects, the peft of thofe parts. 
Le Barbichon de Cayenne, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 534.—P/. enl, 830. f. 1. 2. 
IZE of a Houfe Sparrow: length five inches. The bill 
broad at the bafe, and flat, as in the Zody genus; the bafe is 
befet with hairs, which are even longer than the bill itfelf: the 
plumage on the upper parts is deep olive brown, except the 
crown of the head, which is of an orange-colour: the under 
parts are greenifh yellow, changing to the laft colour on the 
rump: the legs brown. 
The female is a-trifle bigger than the male: the bill Jefs, and 
befet with only a few fhort hairs: the upper parts of a blackith 
brown, tinged with green: on the crown an oblong fpot of yel- 
low: throat, and upper part of the neck, whitifh: the lower, 
and breaft, brown, with yellowifh edges: belly and vent pale 
yellow. In the PJ. enl, the tail feems to.be longer than in the. 
male. 
This fpectes is found at Cayenne ; the male and female moftly 
feen together. The neft is generally placed on fuch branches as 
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