Fal dy le SAGT (ec rte CR. 
are leaft cloathed with leaves ; and is of a large fize, being twelve 
inches deep, and five or more in diameter, wholly compofed of 
mofs: this is only open on the fide, about three inches from the 
top. The note is a foft whiftle. 
Le grand Gobe-mouche noir de Cayenne, Brif. ora. ii. p. 386. 15. pl. 38. 
f. 3.—P/. ent. 381. i 
Le Piauhau, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 588. 
Lev. Mu/. 
IZE of a Blackbird: length twelve inches. The bill 1s 
broad at the bafe, an inch and a quarter long, a little bent 
at the tip, and befet.at the bafe with a few hairs; the colour 
of it dufky: the whole plumage is black, except the chin, 
throat, and fore part of the neck, on which is a large bed of 
beautiful crimfon, inclining to purple: the legs are black. 
Some fpecimens are wholly black, having not the leaft trace 
of crimfon on the throat ; and fuch may be efteemed as females 
or young birds. I have feen more than one of the laft, in 
which the plumage otherwife coincided exactly with the firft- 
defcribed. 
Thefe inhabit Cayenne, and other parts of South America: they 
are found in flocks, and precede in general the Zoucans in their 
movements feed on fruits and infeéts, to which laft their bill 
feems fully adapted : are lively birds, always in a€tion. Inhabit, 
for the moft part, the woods, like the Zoucans ; and where the 
firft are found, the others are feldom far off. They have a fharp 
cry, which they often repeat, not unlike Pibaubau; whence their 
name. 
Linnaeus 
365 
978. 
+ PURPLE- 
THROATED 
FL. 
DescRIPTION. 
VARIETIES. 
PLACE AND 
MawnwneEBs. 
