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specimens are met with wholly black, with no trace of crimson on 

 the throat, and such, no doubt, are young birds. We have also met 

 with others, in which the chin and throat were yellow buff-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and Guiana throughout : found in flocks ; 

 accompanies the Toucans in their movements, and feeds on fruits. 

 It makes a careless nest, on high trees in the woods, and lays 

 four eggs : the cry is sharp, not unlike the syllables Pi-hau-hau, 

 whence one of the names. — M. Levaillant ranks it as a Chatterer, 

 and I am disposed to think it belongs to that Genus. 



Linnaeus has joined this bird to the Synonyms of his first Tanager, 

 but the two are very different ; the present one being of twice the 

 size. In the Tanager, too, the purple about the head is an universal 

 tinge, and not a patch of crimson, as in the one here described. 



24— RED-BREASTED CHATTERER. 



Coracias scutata, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxvii. Shaw's Zool. vii. 401. 



La Pie a gorge ensanglantee, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 56. 



Coracine, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxii. 



Red-breasted Roller, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. 123. Lev. Mus. pi. in p. 199. 



SIZE of a small Crow, or Jay. Bill strong, black, twenty-one 

 lines in length, seven thick, and eleven broad at the base ; nostrils 

 oval, at the base a few straggling hairs; eyes large; plumage in 

 genera] black ; throat and breast bright scarlet, inclining to ferru- 

 ginous at the lower part; down the middle of the belly also is a little 

 mixture of the same ; the tail has twelve feathers, much rounded in 

 shape, or slightly cuneiform ; legs short, dusky black, the outer and 

 middle toes united at the base. 



The female is rather smaller, and the colours less conspicuous. 

 According to Azara, the bird is seventeen inches long and twenty- 

 eight broad ; colour of the bill blue, with a whitish tip; irides lead- 

 colour ; legs dull blue. He adds, too, that on the breast and under 



