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FOREIGN BIRDS- 



The Boat-bill ( l9 ) was there, too, that feaster on fish; 

 And the Scarlet-Cotixga as bright as you wish. 

 Many Pompadour-Chatterers ( 20 ) were seen in 



the throng ; 

 Many Troupioles* warbled a sweet plaintive song. 



( ,9 ) Order, Orally, {Linn.) Boat-bill, the Crested, the 

 1 White-bellied. 



ThegenusCANCROMA, (Linn.) or Boat-bill, consists of two 

 species only ; it is characterized by a gibbous bill, shaped like 

 an inverted boat ; nostrils small, placed in a furrow ; tongue 

 small; toes divided; they inhabit South America. 



The Cochleuria, or Crested-Boat-bill, is ash-colour ; the 

 belly rufous ; crown and lunule on the neck black ; bill brown ; 

 lores naked and blackish ; crest long, pendulous, pointed ; legs 

 yellowish, brown ; toes connected at the base ; length twenty- 

 two inches; perches on trees which hang over water, and darts 

 down on fishes as they swim underneath ; feeds also on crabs : 

 a second variety having the body spotted brown. The Cancro- 

 phaga, or White-eellied-Boat-bill, is also crested ; the 

 body rufous-brown ; belly whitish ; crown black ; by some 

 considered only a variety of the preceding, by others the female. 



( 2? ) Order, Passeres, (Linn.) Chatterer, Cotinga, 

 Bell-Bird. 



The gentis Ampelis, (Linn.) or Chatterer, comprehends 

 twenty-eight species, most of them natives of Africa or Ame- 

 rica, one or two of India; and one, the Ampelis Garruhis, or 

 Waxen Chatterer, found occasionally in this country; they 

 are distinguished by a straight, convex, subincurved bill, each 



* See forwards. The Orioles, so called by the French ; I 

 should not have thought it necessary to introduce this term 

 Troupiole, had not Watekton, used it very freely in his 

 Wanderings in South America: this unnecessary, as it appears to 

 me, introduction of new names is greatly to be regretted. 



