WAX-BILLED BARBET. 



and curved the whole length, but most so at the 

 tip : the colour of the bill bright vermillion : nos- 

 trils covered with reflected bristles : head, neck, 

 and upper parts of the body dusky black : at the 

 bend of the wing, just within, is a horn-coloured 

 spine, about one-eighth of an inch long, and blunt 

 at the end : lesser wing-coverts mixed with white 

 near the body : breast and belly cinereous : quills 

 and tail dark black, the latter rounded, and 

 composed of ten feathers : legs dusky. Inhabits 

 Cayenne. 



This is a very solitary and silent bird, being 

 generally found perched on those trees that grow 

 near water in sequestered places. It was placed 

 by Dr. Latham, in his celebrated ornithological 

 work, under the various genera of Corvus*, Bucco, 

 and Cuculus, from not having seen perfect speci- 

 mens ; but corrected in his supplement, having 

 ascertained its proper situation, by the examina- 

 tion of recent and perfect birds, before the publi- 

 cation of that part. Monsieur Vieillot, in his paper 

 to the Linnean Society, proposes it as a genus by 

 the name of Monadon. 



* A short description of this bird occurs in vol. vii. p. 381 

 of this work, where it is named the Red-billed Crow, upon Dr. 

 Latham's authority. 



