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the middle of this white, on eacli fide, in the direction of the 

 jaw, is a black flender line : the neck and bread are rufous, 

 flriated tranfverfely with flender black lines : back the fame, but 

 more grey, crofled with broad bars of black : fcapulars grey, 

 banded with white : the wings are cream-colour, mottled with 

 black near the fhoulder, and beautifully banded with rufous red ; 

 in the middle, and at fome diftance from the end of the quills, in 

 both places accompanied with black : the tail is grey, mottled 

 and flriated acrofs with black interrupted bands; and near the end 

 crofled with a broad bar of black, bounded above with rufous 

 red : the belly, thighs, and vent, are white : legs yellow, and ra- 

 ther fliort for the fize of the bird. 



This inhabits the interior parts of Guiana, but is not common. Place and 

 It frequents the fides of rivers : is a folitary bird, and known by 

 a kind of plaintive whiftle, which the natives imitate, in order to 

 decoy the bird wichin reach. The fpecimen in the Leverian 

 Mujeum is a mod perfect and fine-coloured one. I have fcen 

 three or four others, which were lefs brilliant in their plumage. 

 Hence we may fufpedl that the male may differ from the female 

 merely by this circumftance ; and that Sir Ajhton Lever's, bird 

 is a male. The inhabitants of Guiana give this fpecics the name 

 of Paon des Rofes. One which came under my infpeiflion had a 

 label affixed, with the name of le Pard. 



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