138 R A I 



10. Le Kiolo, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 164. 



CAYENNE R. Le Rafle de Cayenne, PL Enl. 368. 



Lev. Muf, 



Description. LENGTH near eight inches. The bill brown: the crown 

 of the head is rufous : from thence all the upper parts are 

 olive brown : beneath rufous as far as the thighs, which are the 

 fame as the upper part : the vent pale : from the gape a broad 

 blackifh ftreak paffing through the eyes, and beneath them : the 

 quills are black : the legs reddifh brown. 



19. 

 Var. A. 



Le Rale a ventre roux de Cayenne, PL Enl. 753. 



-. IP HI S is only feven inches in length : and the upper parts are 



Description. J[ j ° rr r 



of a deeper brown : the crown chefnut ; the chin and vent 

 rufous white j and the broad ftreak through the eye is blue grey : 

 the under parts are rufous, but much deeper than in the laft 

 bird, and that colour paffes on to the vent and thighs j but the 

 in fides, and the lower parts of the laft, are dufky. It is probable 

 that this differs from the other only in fex. 

 Place. Both thefe inhabit Cayenne. I have met with one of the laft 



meafuring very little more than fix inches : they therefore differ 

 much as to fize. 



Thefe birds are common alfo at Guiana, where they are known 

 by the name of Kiolo ; arifing, no doubt, from their cry, which 

 is not unlike that word. Thefe birds may be heard making a 

 noife, or rather calling, in the evening juft at fun-fet, calling one 

 another together, in order to pafs the night j being difperfed 

 fingly among the thick bufhes in the day-time. They make the 



neft 



