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ANI. 



GENUS XII— ANI. 



1. Lesser Ani. 



2. Greater Ani. 



3. Variegated Ani. 



4. Walking Ani. 



1 HIS Genus has the bill greatly compressed, and arched on the 

 top, in shape half oval. Top cultrated. 



Nostrils round. Tongue flat, pointed at the end. 



Tail consisting of ten feathers. Toes placed two before and two 

 behind. 



1— LESSER ANI— Pl. XXXVI. 



Crotophaga Ani, Ind. Om. i. 448. Lin. i. 154. Gm. Lin. i. 362. Bor. Nat. ii. 101. 



t. 8. Bris. iv. 177. t. 18. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 92. Gerin. ii. 53. 1. 190. 

 Monedula toto nigra major, Sloan Jam. 298. pl. 256. 1. Brown Jam. 474. Klein. Av. 



64. Id. 55. 

 Psittaco congener, Ani, Raii, 35. & 185. Will. 81. Id. Engl. 120. 

 Cacalolotl, Raii. 168. 27? 



Ani, Bout de Petun, Buf. vi. 420. Pl. enl. 102. f. 2. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxvi. 

 L'Anno, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 263. 

 Razor-billed Blackbird, Catesb. Car. App. pl. 3* 

 Chattering Crow, Damp. Voy. iii. p. 73. 

 Lesser Ani, Gen. Syn. i. 360. pl. 13. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length thirteen inches. Bill one inch 

 long, brownish black ; at the base some black bristles, which turn 

 forwards; there are also some long hairs on the eyelids, like eye- 

 lashes ; the plumage in general is black ; the feathers of the nape, 

 neck behind, and wing coverts margined with steely dull purple ; 

 quills and tail violet black ; the last six inches long, greatly cunei- 

 form, and in certain lights appears undulated with numerous trans- 

 verse, darker-coloured bars ; the second quills have also somewhat of 

 the same appearance ; legs black, and scaly. 



* The toes in this plate are placed three before and one behind, no doubt by mistake. 



