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fpace between the bill and eye, and furrounds the latter : noftrils 

 a flit placed obliquely, not far from the bafe ; the upper man- 

 dible finely ferrated : the head is fmall ; and the neck long and 

 flender, both covered with fhort downy feathers, of a dufky 

 white, or very pale brown, paleft before, and darkeft at the 

 lower part behind : the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, are of 

 the fame colour, but deeper : the lower part of the neck, on the 

 fides, and the wing coverts, marked with oval fpots of white, re- 

 gular, and forming rows on the latter : the fcapulars ftreaked 

 longitudinally with white, giving the bird an elegant appear- 

 ance : acrofs the lower part of the bread a dull rufous bar ; from 

 thence all beneath is black, of which colour are alfo the quilis 

 and tail j the laft is eleven inches in length, a little rounded in 

 fhape, and the end of the feathers rufty pale brown ; the two 

 middle feathers undulated crofs ways in a lingular manner : the 

 legs are clumfy, ftout, and only four inches and a half in length j 

 the colour dirty yellowifh brown. 



Arihinga noir de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 960. 



CIZE of the others: length three feet. Colour of the bill 

 yellow, but very pale : round the eye and throat pale dufky 

 white: wing coverts yellowifh white; the reft of the plumage 

 black, except the feathers on the beginning of the back, and 

 fome of the fcapulars, which are ftreaked down the middle with 

 white, fomewhat like the others j and the tip of the tail dirty ru- 

 fous : legs brownifh yellow. 

 Inhabits Cayenne,. 



Var. B. 

 BLACK D.. 



Description. 



Piace* 



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