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GRAND G. -ke Grand Tette-chevre tachete du Brefil, Brif. om. ii.-p. 485. 7. 



Le Grand Ibijau, i?a/". oif. vi. p. 541. 

 ■ Crapaud volant de Cayenne, Pi. enl. 325. 



Ibijau, American Goatfucker, Rait Syn. p. 27. N° 2. — #7//. »/•«. p, ioS = 

 pi. 14. (the larger Jfecies) bad figure. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Description. ClZE of a fmall Buzzard: length twenty-three inches and a 

 half. Bill, to the end of the gape, three inches ; width of 

 the gape the fame : noftrils not perceivable, the bill being co- 

 vered almoft to the tip with hairs : the plumage is cream-colour 

 on the upper parts of the body, minutely dotted with brown, and 

 ftriped with the fame down the fhafts : on the fcapulars much 

 white, efpecially on the inner parts of them : outer ridge of the 

 wing brown ; the wings reach almoft to the end of the tail : 

 quills deep brown, a little barred with white on each fide ; (hafts 

 black : tail eleven inches long, rounded at the end ; colour 

 brown, crofied with feven or eight narrow bars of dotted white : 

 legs brown, covered with feathers almoft to the toes : the middle 

 claw not ferrated. 

 Place. Inhabits Cayenne. 



One in poflefiion of Sir A. Lever. This feems to be longer 

 than that of Buffon by an inch and a half. He mentions one 

 that had the breaft brownilh ; perhaps differing in fex from the 

 above-defcribed. This is faid to keep within the hollow of fome 

 decayed tree in the day-time, and frequents fuch as are near the 

 water. It is by far the largeft of its race, and, like all the reft, 

 folitary. 



Buffon 's Grand Ibijau is reprefented in Marcgrave as having a 

 9 creft 



