GUIR A-GU A CUBERAB A. 
Having taken our figure of this bird from 
Edwards, we have also adopted the native 
name under which he has described it. 
It is the Motacilla Guira, of Linnaeus and 
Gmelin ; the Sylvia Brasiiiensis Viridis, of 
Brisson ; the Guira-Beraba, of BufTon ; the 
Guira Warbler, of Latham ; and the Guira- 
Guacuberaha, of Marcgrave, Ray, and Ed- 
wards. 
BufTon seems merely to have abridged the 
native name, for the sake of making it some- 
what more familiar ; a liberty which he fre- 
quently takes with the " sesquipedalia verba'* . 
of the South Americans. 
" This bird," says BufTon, " which Marc- 
grave has described, appears to me to belong 
to the Pitpits ; though his account is not suf- 
ficiently compleat to preclude it's being ranged 
with the Fig-Eaters. It is as large as the 
Crokliinch ; which, exceeds the ordinary size 
of 
