190 CHATTERER. 



in that bird ; the wings and tail pure white, the latter pretty long, 

 and almost even at the end, scarcely rounded ; several stiff, and 

 somewhat curved feathers fall over the wings, as in the Pompadour, 

 but are shorter : the make likewise of the wings themselves differs, for 

 when expanded, the ends form but one curve, but in the Pompadour 

 they are rather indented in the middle; legs brown. 



Inhabits South America. — A fine specimen was in the Museum 

 of Mr. Bullock. We are inclined to think, that this is the Ampelis 

 atro-purpurea, of Maxim. Tr. called Purple Chatterer, or Silk-Tail, 

 but in his bird the feathers of the crown are said to incline to bright 

 red,* and the young bird the plumage is ash grey, with white quill 

 feathers. 



23 — PIAUHAU CHATTERER. 



Muscicap rubricollis, Lid. Orn. i. 489. Gm. Lin. i. 933. 



■ Cayanensis nigra major, 386. t. 38. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 265. 



porphyrobroncha, Nat. Misc. ii. pi. 60. 



Le Piauhau, Levail. Am. §■ Lid. i. 148. pi. 47. — male. pi. 28. — female. Btif. iv. 588. 

 Grand Gobe-mouche noir de Cayenna, PI. enl. 381. 

 Purple-throated Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 365. Shaw's Zool. x. 393. 



SIZE of a Blackbird, or larger ; length twelve inches. Bill 

 broad at the base, one inch long, a triflle bent at the tip, and beset 

 with a few hairs; colour dusky ; plumage black, except the chin, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck, which compose a bed of beautiful 

 crimson, inclining to purple; legs black. 



The female is smaller, but much the same in colour, and both 

 sexes, while young, are not easily distinguished apart. The male, in 

 the first moult, has some traces of the Purple Throat, but does not 

 gain it fully until the third year ; the wings are rather longer than 

 in others of the Genus, as they reach full half on the tail. Some 



* See Trav. i. p. 228. 240. 



