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upper parts of the body, belly, and vent, fine rich blue; beneath, as 

 far as the belly, purple red ; greater coverts, quills, and tail black, 

 the former edged with blue. — M. Levaillant observes, that every 

 blue feather has the rest of its length from the tip black, and the 

 purple ones white ; and that the young do not gain the full plumage 

 till the third moult. 



The female is dusky brown, with a tinge of red in some places, 

 in others bluish ; and the feathers more or less margined with pale 

 red orange; quills and tail rufous brown , edged with the same. 



At first, the young bird is most like the female ; general colour 

 brown ; the margins of the feathers dusky reddish white, or at least, 

 the white is not pure. 



Inhabits Brazil, called there Kirud orCrejod: manners unknown. 

 It is believed by many, that the Spotted-breasted one is the male, and 

 the Purple-breasted the female; and if so, the varieties in colour of 

 each, mentioned by authors, most probably proceed from different 

 periods of age. 



4— SPOTTED-BREASTED CHATTERER, 



Ampelis Cotinga, Ind. Orn. i. 364. Bris. ii. 340. t. 34. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 252. Nat. Misc. 



pi. 817. & 821. 

 Cotinga Cordon bleu, Buf. iv. 442. pi. 21. PI. enl. 188. Levail. Am. Sf Ind.'u 125. 



pi. 41. male. Id. 42. female. 

 Superb Chatterer, Shaw's Zool. x. 436. pi. 38. 

 Cock purple-breasted Manakin, Edw. pi. 340. Gen. Syn. iii. 94. 



LENGTH eight inches and three quarters. Bill and legs black ; 

 head, all the upper parts of the body, and wing coverts rich glossy 

 blue; greater coverts, quills, and tail, black ; throat and fore part 

 of the neck purple, marked with three or four patches of bright 

 scarlet, irregularly placed ; across the breast a belt of blue. 



How far the female differs from the other sex is not determined ; 

 but the markings on the under parts vary most exceedingly, so that 



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