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vcred with a naked purplilh blue (kin, in which the eyes are 

 placed : beneath the throat, for an inch and a half, the Ikin is 

 loole, of a fine red colour, and covered only with a few hairs : 

 the top of the head is furnifhed with long feathers, which the bird 

 can erect as a creft at will : the general colour of the plumage 

 browniih black, glofied with copper in fome lights j but the 

 wing coverts have a greenifh and violet glofs : the quills moft 

 incline to purple : the fore part of the neck, bread, and belly, 

 are marked with white fpots : thighs, under tail coverts, and the 

 tail itfelf, brown ifh black : the legs are red : the claws black. 



Some of thefe birds have little or no creft, and are fuppofed to 

 be females. 



This inhabits Brafil, where it is often made tarrte. It frequently Placb. 



makes a noife not unlike the word Jacu. The flelh is much 

 efteemed. 



A. 



L'Yacou, Buf. oif. ii. p. 387. — Mem. fur Cayenne, vol. i. p. 398. pi. 5. YACOTJ T. 



Pl. LXI. " 



SOMEWHAT bigger than a Fowl. The bill black : the n „ 

 00 .Description* 



head feathers long and pointed, forming a creft, which can 

 be erected at pleafure : irides pale rufous : fpace round the 

 eyes naked, of a blueifti colour, and not unlike that of a Turkey : 

 it has alfo a naked membrane, or kind of wattle, of a dull 

 black j the blue fkin comes forward on the bill, but is not 

 liable to change colour like that of the Turkey : the plumage has 

 not much variation ; it is chiefly brown, with fome white mark- 

 ings on the neck, breaft, wing coverts, and belly : the tail is 

 compofed of twelve feathers, pretty long, and even at the end : 

 legs red. 



Vol. II. 4 S This 



