4Si VARIEGATED CHATTERER. 



blue In some lights appears green. This beautiful 

 species inhabits the province of Mayna^ in South 

 America," 



VARIEGATED CHATTERER. 



( Ampelis variegata.) 



Am. cinerea^ guttiire carunculis duahus nigris lanceolatis. 

 Grey Chatterer^ with two black spear-shaped wattles on the 

 throat. 



Ampelis variegata* Gmel. S?/st, Nat. J. 641. — Lath, I/id, Orn. 



1. 36';. 10. 

 Cotinga naevia. Brhs. Orn. 2. 354. Q. 

 L'Averano. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 457. 

 Variegated Chatterer. Lath* Gen. Syn. 3. f)g. 9. 



This curious bird is said to make a noise like 

 that of a cracked bell : its voice is as loud as that 

 of the Carunculated Chatterer, and is only uttered 

 during the months of December and January : its 

 beak is black : the throat and fore-part of the 

 neck is ornamented with a number of black fleshy 

 wattles : the feathers of the breast are divided as 

 it were into a kind of furrow : the colour of the 

 head is brown : the neck, breast, belly, back, and 

 thighs, are ash-coloured ; the back being varied 

 with black and the rump with green : the wing- 

 coverts are black, but the greater ones are varied 

 with dull green : legs and quills dusky : tail cine- 



