140 GUAN. 



Le Katraca, Buf. ii. 364. 



Avis Motmot Brasiliensis colons spadicei 3 Seba, i. 103. t. 67. 2 ? 



Motmot Pheasant, Gen. Syn. iv. 721. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length eighteen inches. Bill reddish ; head 

 feathers elongated, rufous, the head deep brown ; neck and upper 

 parts olive-brown ; breast, belly, sides, and thighs, rufous brown ; 

 under tail coverts chestnut ; quills and two middle tail feathers like 

 the back ; the rest blackish, except the outer, which is rufous ; shape 

 of the tail cuneiform ; legs blackish, claws brown. 



Inhabits Brazil and Guiana. That figured by Brisson, and in 

 the PI. enlum. have cuneiform long tails ; but the one in Seba's plate 

 has that part much shorter, and even ; the description, too, in this 

 author, is not quite the same ; he calls the size that of a Pigeon, with 

 a large head and short neck, a short and thick bill as in the common 

 Fowl, and the legs of the same make; plumage in general chestnut; 

 quills greenish blue; and the base of the bill bordered with blackish 

 feathers. He adds, that the flesh of this bird, well dressed, is very 

 well flavoured. 



One of these in the Leverian Museum was somewhat bare, and 

 reddish under the chin ; the tail cuneiform. This and the following 

 bird do not seem to be sufficiently known, at least not enough to 

 identify, how far they may be related to each other, or distinct species. 



10. -PARRAQUA GUAN. 



Phasianus Parraqua, Ind. Orn. ii. 632. Gm. Lin. i. 740. Mem. sur Cay. i. 378. pi. 



1. 2. Buf. ii. 394. Id. Scmnin. vi. 320. & Add. 323. Tern. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. iii. 



p. 85. & Anat. t. viii.— Windpipe. 

 Hannequaw, Bancr. Guian. p. 176 ? 

 Yacu caraquata, Voy. d' Azara, iv. p. 164. No. 336. 

 Parraqua Pheasant, Gen. Syn. iv. 722. Lin. Trans, iv. 101. pi. ix. f. 3. — Windpipe. 



SIZE and make of a small Fowl ; length twenty-three inches. 

 Bill dark rufous, shaped as in the common Fowl ; eyes brown ; 



