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YELLOW-BELLIED CURUCUI. 



breast ; all beneath this orange yellow ; the thighs 

 nearly black, under wing-coverts the same, bor- 

 dered with white ; upper wing-coverts and scapu- 

 lars black; quills black brown, the outer edges 

 from the base to the middle white, from thence to 

 the end spotted with white ; tail wedge-shaped ; 

 the two middle feathers exceed the outer ones by 

 near two inches, and blackish, glossed with green 

 gold; the second and third, on each side, the 

 same, but the margins only green gold ; the third 

 has a black tip ; the fourth blackish, and indented 

 with white on the exterior edge at the tip ; and 

 the two outer ones, half way from the base blackish, 

 the rest white; and these two colours indented 

 into each other, as in the former ; legs feathered 

 to the toes, with blackish feathers ; toes and claws 

 brown ash. Inhabits Cayenne. 



There is a variety of this bird which is rather 

 less than the former, and differs in having the belly 

 white, instead of yellow ; the end half of the tail- 

 feathers white, separated obliquely, but indented 

 with the other colours, as in the common variety. 



