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head to the lower part of the neck behind, each feather has a 

 ftreak of white down the middle : tips of the middle and larger 

 wing coverts white, forming two bars on the wing : edge of the 

 wing, half way from the bend, white ; the quills rufous : the 

 tail cuneiform, ten inches long, of the fame colour as the back ; 

 all the feathers tipped with yellow : the legs black, and not fur- 

 nilhed with fpurs behind. 



This inhabits Mexico, and parts adjacent, where it feeds on 

 Jnakes : makes an howling kind of noife, and is found on trees 

 near rivers ; is accounted an unlucky bird. Met with chiefly in 

 autumn, and is faid to pronounce a found not unlike the word 

 Hoaclzin. We learn from others that it may be domefticated, 

 and is feen in that ftate among the natives ; and further, that it 

 feeds on ants, worms, and other infects, as well as Jnakes. 



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Phafianus Motraot, Lin. Syft. i. p. 271. 2. 

 Le Faifan de la Guiane, Bpif. orn. i. p. 270. 3. — PI. enl. 146. 

 Le Katraca, Buf. o'tf. ii. p. 364. 

 Motmot, Seba, vol. i. p. 103. pi. 67. f. 2. 



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OIZE of a Fowl: length eighteen inches. Head feathers 

 elongated, rufous : bill reddilh : the head deep brown : 

 neck and upper parts olive brown : breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, 

 rufous brown : under tail coverts chefnut : quills, and two mid- 

 dle tail feathers, like the back j the reft of them blackilh, except 

 the outer, which is rufous : legs blackilh : claws brown. 



Inhabits Brafil and Guiana. The fhape of the tail is cunei- 

 form both in Brijfon's figure and the PL enl. otherwife it fhould 

 feem to be the fame with the following bird. 



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