178 CHATTERER. 



no two are precisely alike. In Edwards's bird are four scarlet spots 

 above the blue belt, and three below. In the PI. enlum. one under 

 the chin, two on the neck, and one on the purple bar below the 

 blue one. In Levaill ant's, one spot just below the chin, two on the 

 neck before, within a circle of the same ; and in one figure of this 

 bird, the purple is exactly in the shape of a cross ; as to the patches 

 of fiery-red, appearing out of the purple in many places, one would 

 rather take it for art than the effect of nature, being in such singular 

 forms, as handed down to us in engravings ; and if it be true, that 

 on pulling out the feathers at a certain age, others of a different hue 

 would be produced, we might be led to think the whole an artifice, 

 used for the same purpose as in the Counterfeit Parrots mentioned by 

 authors.* M. Levaillant thinks this Spotted-breasted one distinct, 

 and not a Variety; and that the Purple-breasted one is so scarce, that 

 he has only seen thirteen specimens, whilst he has met with five 

 hundred of the Common sort. 



5— PURPLE-THROATED CHATTERER. 



Ampelis Cayana, Ind. Orn. i. 365. Lin. i. 298. Gm. Lin. i. 840. Vosm. Monog. 



1769. t. V. 

 Turdus Cayanus, Ind. Orn.\. 332. Gm. Lin. i. 816— young bird. 

 Cotinga Cayanensis, Bris. ii. 344. pi. 35. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 253. 

 Lanius Ococolin, Klein, 54. 6. Seba, ii. 102. t. 96. 3. 

 Litorne de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 306 — young bird. 

 Cotinga de Cayenne, Quereiva, Buf. iv. 444. PI. enl. 624. Levail. Am.et Ind.\. 81. 



pi. 27— male. Id. pi. 28— young male. PI. 29— middle-aged male. PI. 30— fem. 

 Grive de Cayenne, PL enl. 515 — young male. 

 Cayenne Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 29 — young bird. 

 Purple-throated Chatterer, Gen. Syn. iii. 95. Share's Zool. x. 429. 



SIZE of the Redwing ; length eight inches and a quarter. Bill 

 black ; general colour of the plumage blue green, with a mixture of 



* Pemetty Voy. aux Malouin. i. 177. hist, des Ois. vi. 235. Will. Orn. p. 72. Id. 

 Engl. 110. Gen. Syn. i. ^95 . Gen. Hist. Birds, ii. 243. 



