184 CHATTERER. 



but less bright ; quills dusky towards the point ; the feathers on the 

 the head and neck are stiffer than the rest, and the shafts project a 

 little beyond the tips ; tail feathers square, but the tail rounded in 

 shape at the end, the outmost feather being much shorter than the 

 middle ; legs silvery blue. 



Inhabits Paraguay. Said to make a large nest, of small, spinous 

 twigs, well entwined together, and hung at the end of a branch of 

 a tree, so as to wave with every wind ; often made in the highways, 

 and hedges, within the reach of any one on horseback, and to have 

 several places of entrance ; the eggs are in general four in number, 

 and white : both sexes sit in turn. This seems much allied to, if not 

 a Variety of the Red Chatterer. 



15— CUPREOUS CHATTERER. 



Ampelis cuprea, Ind. Orn. i. 3G6. Merrem, Ic. p. 5. t. 1. f. 2. 



— — —- coccinea, Gm. Lin. i. S39. 



Cupreous Chatterer, Gen. St/n. Sup. ii. 190. Shaiv's Zool. x. 426. 



SIZE of the Red Chatterer, and at first sight like it. Bill the 

 same ; general colour of the plumage olive, the feathers glossed with 

 copper, and orange bronze at the tips ; crown red ; cheeks orange ; 

 breast and belly sanguineous, glossed with green at the margins of 

 the feathers. This is the description of M. Merrem, who thinks it 

 distinct, for, on comparison with the Red, the feathers of the head 

 and neck are smaller, and stiffer than the others ; those on the cheeks 

 curled, and on the ears full, and long ; the wings are also longer, 

 for they reach above a quarter of the way on the tail, which is rounded 

 at the end ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Surinam. — M. Levaillant supposes this the same with 

 the Red Chatterer, but in case of any alliance with either, it seems 

 to approach nearest to the Annumbi, unless all the three form but 

 one Species. 



