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GENUS CXXXl.— PROCNIAS, Hoffmansegg. 

 BERRY-EATER. 



Bealc short, weak, depressed, 

 arcuated, acute, its base 

 either carunculated or 

 smooth. 

 Gape continued as far as the 

 eyes. 



Inhabit America. Feed upon insects. 



Rostnm breve, debile, de- 

 pressum, arcuatum, acu- 

 tum, basi aut caruncula- 

 tum aut glabrum. 



Rictus ocuhs tenus conti- 

 nuus. 



Sp. I . Pr ? carimculatus. 



Ampehs carunculata. Steph. y. x. p. 435. pi. 37. — South 

 America. 



Sp. 2. Pr. ventraHs. Temm. PL Col. 5./. 1. male ; /. 2. female. 



Vr. cosndea, fronte jugulo temporibiisque nigris; corpore suUiis 

 in medio albo ; laterihiis str'iis transversis nigriscentibits ; mas. : 

 aut viridisj mento temporibusque griseis ; corpore irifra Jiaves- 

 cente, striis obscure viridibus transversim ; fcemina. 



Blue Berry-eater^ with the forehead, jugulum, and temples black , 

 the body beneath white in the middle y the sides with dusky 

 transverse stripes; male: or green, with the chin and temples 

 grey ; the body beneath yellowish, with obscure green trans- 

 verse stripes ; female. 



Procnias hirundinacea. Swain. Zool. Illust. pi. 28. — Lindo Chat- 

 terer. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. p. 192. pi. Ixxxv. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length six inches : the male of 

 this beautiful bird has the top of the head, the neck, 

 the back, the breast, the flanks, and the wings, of a 

 splendid azure-blue, which colour borders all the fea- 

 thers of the tail and of the secondaries, the rest of 

 which is fine black : the middle of the belly is white, 

 finely banded transversely with blue : round the beak 

 and the eyes, and all the throat, pure deep black: 



