TRUMPETER. 347 



GENUS LXV— TRUMPETER. 



1 Gold-breasted || 2 Undulated || 3 Chili 



-DILL moderate, the upper mandible a little convex. 



Nostrils oblong, sunk, and pervious. 



Tongue cartilaginous, flat, fringed at the end. 



Legs naked a little above the knees. 



Toes three before and one behind, the last small, with a round 

 protuberance beneath it, which is at a little distance from the ground. 



1— GOLD-BREASTED TRUMPETER— Pl. cxxxiii. 



Psophia crepitans, Ind. Orn. ii. p, 657. Lin. i. 203. Gm. Lin. i. 720. Borowsk. lii. 

 p. 81. Mus. Lev. t. 57. Vosmaer, Monog. 1768. p. 6. Tern. Man. d'Orn. i. p. xcv. 

 Grus Psophia, Pall. Spic iv. t. 1. 



Phasiaims Antillarum, Bris. i. 269. Id. 8vo. i. 75. Rati, p. 56. 2. Sect. 2. 

 L'Agami, Buf. iv. 487. pl. 23. Pl. enl. 169. 

 Trompetenvogel, Schmid, Vog. p. 111. t. 97. 

 Le Caracara, Bvf. ii. 292. Hist, des Antil. ii. cap. 5. §. 8. 

 L'Oiseau Trompette, Descr. de Surin.W. 162. 

 Gold-breasted Trumpeter, Gen. Syn. iv. 793. pl. 68. 



SIZE of a large Fowl, but the neck is long, and it stands high 

 on the legs; length twenty inches. Bill dull yellowish green, with 

 the end dusky, in some birds black; irides luteous brown; round 

 the eyes somewhat bare, and reddish ; general colour of the plumage 

 black ; the feathers of the head and neck very short, and downy : 

 those on the fore part of the neck, and upper part of the breast, 

 glossy gilded green, with a reflection of blue in some lights ; feathers 

 between the shoulders ferruginous, changing into pale ash-colour as 



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