CAROLINA CHATTERER. 
and the belly and flanks are of a pale yel- 
low." 
Perhaps, after all, the deviation remarkable 
in this account, may be ascribed to Buffon's 
own observations on the birds which were sent 
from Cayenne, and which he particularly says 
that he had examined. 
*' It appears," proceeds Buffon, " from this 
description, and from the measures which have 
been taken, that the American Chatterer is ra- 
ther smaller than the European sort; that it's 
wings have less of the enamel, and are l ather 
of a duskier hue ; and that the wings do not 
extend so far in proportion as the tail. But it 
is undoubtedly the same species ; for seven or 
eight middle quills of it's wing are terminated 
by the Uttle red appendices. Brooke, Surgeon 
jn Maryland, told Edwards, that the Females 
wanted these appendices, and that the colours 
of their plumage were not so bright as those of 
the Males. The Cayenne Chatterers which I 
examined," concmdes BufFon, "had really not 
these appendices ; and the shades of the plumage 
were 
