PLATE XIV. 



Cotinga Cayanensis. Briss. 2. p, 344. 32. t. 34. y! 3. 

 Lanlus Ococolin. Klein, av. p, 54. 6. — Seba. \i,p. 102. ^. 96.^^ 3. 

 Cotinga de Cayenne, Quereiva. Buff, 4. 444. — PL Enl. 624. 

 Purple-Throated Chatterer. Lath. Syn, 3. p. 95. 3. 



The Purple-Throated Chatterer is assuredly one of the most 

 beautiful of the feathered race, at present known ; the general colour 

 of the plumage, a blue of most transcendant brightness, and highly 

 changeable, varying from a fine caerulean, or azure, to a green of 

 equal delicacy and beauty. There is an intermixture of black dis- 

 posed in spots throughout ; one half of each feather, from the base, 

 being black, and only the tips blue, so that the plumage appears more 

 or less spotted with black, as the feathers are ruffled or misplaced from 

 their natural position. The region of the chin and throat is of a 

 beautiful crimson purple, whence its name of Purple-Throated 

 Chatterer. The greater wing coverts are black, varied and spotted 

 with blue : the quills and tail black with blue margins : the bill black 

 with the lower mandible rather paler : the legs black. 



This brilliant species of the Ampelis tribe has been sometimes 

 denominated the Ultramarine Thrush, and not unfrequently the 

 Ultramarine Starling : its size resembles that of the Starling, and 

 there is also a general similitude in its form and manners, but it isj. 

 nevertheless generically distinct. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and probably some other parts of South 

 America. 



