386 LONG-LEGGED CROW. 



varieties, of which the most remarkable has the 

 head and neck entirely black, without any appear- 

 ance of stripes. 



LONG-LEGGED CROW. 



Corvus grallarius. C. rufo-fuscus, suhtus pallidior, occipite 



cinereOy cruribus elongatis, cauda brevissima. 

 Rufous-brown Crow, paler beneath, with cinereous hind-head, 



lengthened legs, and extremely short tail. 

 Le Roi des Fourmilliers. Buff. ois. PL EnL 702. 

 Turdus grallarius. Lath. ind. orn, 

 Turdus Rex. Lin. Syst. Nat. GmcL . 

 King-I brush. Lathsyn. .mm^^^ 



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Size of a Missel Thrush, but shorter, the tail 

 being hardly an inch in length : bill strong, short, 

 and of a brown colour: legs long, bare a little 

 above the knees, and of reddish flesh-colour : whole 

 plumage ferruginous brown, paler beneath, where 

 the feathers are slightly undulated by dark edges : 

 On the upper parts the wings and tail incline most 

 to rufous ! the back part of the head is ash-colour- 

 ed, and on each side the throat runs a somewhat 

 interrupted white bar or stripe to some little dis- 

 tance down the neck: on the middle of the breast 

 is also a subtriangular white patch or spot, and 

 the forehead is marked by several small white 

 specks. This species is a native of Guiana in 

 South America, and is said to be principally ob- 

 served in the neighbourhood of ant-hills, feeding 

 chiefly on ants, and being a bird of a very solitary 

 nature. The female is rather larger than the male. 



