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and Sea-green, as in the fecond kind ■> and near the vent is alfothe like fpot of white 

 feathers. The Wings are of a liver-colour. The Tail is of a blackifh blue, fhining like 

 polifhed Steel blued over. 



4. The fourth is a little lefler than the third. The (hape of the body and difpo- 

 litionof the feathers the fame, but it is of another colour, and differs alfo in the Bill 

 and colour of the Legs. The Bill is an inch and half long, bowed downward like a 

 Pclonian Sword, round, every where of equal thicknefs, and (harp-pointed. The 

 upper part thereof is black, the under yellow, excepting the tip, which is alfo black. 

 The top of the Head, the upper fide of the Neck, as alfo the Wings, are of like co- 

 lour withthofe of the firft kind. The Throat, the lower fide of the Neck, the 

 whole Breaft, and lower Belly, from white incline to a red colour. It hath a Tail an 

 inch long, ending with the Wings, confiftingof feathers which from black incline to 

 green, having white tips : The Toes fo difpofed as the other Specks, yet not black, 

 but white or yellowifh, with like femilunar, (harp, and black Claws. 



5. The fifth is in bignefs equal to the third kind ; having a black Bill, a little more 

 than an inch long, and a little bending downward, black Eyes, as alfo Legs and Feet. 

 The Throat, lower fide of the Neck; and all the Belly are covered with black Vel- 

 vet feathers, having as it were a glofs of fhining blue. Near the Vent is a fpot of 

 white feathers. But the black ends of the feathers on the fides of the Neck, Breaft, 

 and Belly (hine wonderfully with a rare mixture of Sea-water colour, golden and 

 green. All the upper fide of the Head and Neck, and the whole Back are adorned 

 with feathers mixt with golden, fire-colour, and green, as is alfo the beginning of the 

 Wings. The reft of the Wings is of an iron or dusky colour. The Tail is a little 

 more than an inch long, confifting of feathers of an elegant brown, with a glofs of 

 blue. About the edges thefe feathers are of the colour of polifhed Steel blued. 



6. The fixth is in bignefs equal to the fifth -, hath a Bill of an inch long, a little 

 bending, white underneath, black above. The whole Head,Neck, Back, and Belly, 

 and the beginning of the Wings are covered with feathers of an excellent fhining co- 

 lour 4 confifting as it were of a mixture of much gold,hal{ fi re-colour,artd a little green : 

 In brief* fhining like the Sun. In the Belly are a few white'feathers mixt. The Legs are 

 black : The Wings blackifh : The Tail almoft an inch and half long, handfbm and 

 broad, confifting of fome feathers of the fame rare colour with the reft of the body, 



fome of a mixt colour of green and golden, and white about the edges, fome half 

 white, half green, fhining with golden, that is, on one fide the fhaft white, on the 

 other green. 



7. The feventh is a little lefs than the fifth and fixth kind 5 hath a Bill not altoge- 

 ther an inch long, being of an afh-colour all over the body, almoft like a Sparrow, 

 which here and there fhineth rarely with a mixture of red like a Rubine. 



8. The eighth is the moft elegant of all, hath a ftreight, black Bill half an inch long 5 

 a long, double £ or cloven 1 Tongue. Its bignefs and fhape agrees with that of the 

 fecond kind. The whole Head above and upper part of the Neck fhine with an ad- 

 mirable Rubine-colour, as if a Rubine were illuftrated by the Sun-beams : But the 

 Throat and under-fide of the Neck do refemble pure, polifhed, Hungarian gold,fhone 

 upon by the Sun-beams: So that it is impoffible in words perfectly to fet forth the 

 likenefs of thefe colours, much lefs for a Painter to reprefent or imitate them. The be- 

 ginning of the Back is covered with a Velvet black, the reft with dusky feathers, with 

 which is mixt fomething of a dark green? The whole lower Belly is inverted with 

 feathers of the fame colour with the back, the Wings with a dusky, as in other kinds. 

 Near the Vent it hath a white fpot. The Legs are flender and black : The Tail little 



* The French m orethan an inch long, confiftingof feathers of a *feuilIemort colour, which at the 

 a dcld jSf. ** ends are dusky about the edges. The Tail is broad, which it fpreads very wide in 

 flying. The Wings end with the Tail. 



9. The ninth is for figure and bignefs like the firft. Its Bill is black above, and red 

 underneath. Its whole body fhines with that bright green colour mixt with golden, 

 that the Belly of the fecond fort is of. The Wings are dusky : The Tail an inch long, 

 pretty broad, confifting of feathers of the colour of polifhed blue fteel. 



This Bird is by the Brafilians called by many other names befides Gnainumbi, as 

 Aratica, and Aratarataguacu, as Marggrave tells us, and Guar acy aba, that is, A Sun- 

 beam, and Guaracigaba, that is, the hair of the Sun, according to de Laet. It is com- 

 mon in almoft all the hotter Countries of America. *It is reported (faith Nierember- 

 gius ) that the powder of this Bird', taken inwardly, cures the Falling ficknefs. What 

 I find in Marggravius concerning the Tail of the firft Species, vii,. thaj it confifts 



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