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red ; head, neck, and upper part of the body dusky greenish black ; 

 lesser wing coverts, nearest the body, mixed with white ; under wing- 

 coverts mixed grey and white ; at the bend of the wing, a little within, 

 a whitish horn-coloured spine, an eighth of an inch long, and blunt 

 at the tip ; the first quill is two inches long, the second three inches, 

 and the third three inches and a half, but the fourth is a trifle the 

 longest of all ; the second quills nearly all of one length ; breast and 

 belly cinereous ; quills and tail full black, the latter composed of 

 twelve feathers, rounded at the end, and the wings, when closed, 

 reach on it about an inch ; legs black, with a membrane between the 

 toes at the bottom. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; is a solitary, silent bird ; for the most part 

 found perched on a tree, which grows near the water. We have 

 formerly, owing to imperfect specimens, been under much uncertainty 

 in respect to its Genus ; and it has but lately been ascertained to 

 have twelve feathers in the tail, being so in a fine specimen in my 

 possession, presented to me by Lord Seaforth. 



29 —WHITE-FACED BARBET. 



THIS is, in make and shape, not unlike the Wax-billed Species, 

 but is larger. The bill is more stout than in that bird, though not 

 greatly differing in shape, the colour red ; the face round the base 

 of the bill white; body and wings deep lead-colour; the tail black ; 

 legs brown. 



A specimen of this in Mr. Bullock's Museum ; said to have been 

 brought from the interior of Cayenne. How far this differs from 

 the Wax-billed Barbet, can scarcely be determined, whether sexual 

 only, or a mere Variety, for it has the same small spur at the bend 

 of the wing. 



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