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PERCHING BIRDS. 
unique feature among tlie chatterers. The fourth species is, however, characterised 
by a brown head and black wings; although white predominates in its plumage. 
The bell-birds possess a moderately-curved bill, broad at the base and deeply cleft; 
the wings extending to the end of the upper tail-coverts, the metatarsus being 
strong and scutellated, and the toes short and strong. The variegated bell-bird 
is found in Venezuela, while the snow-white bell-bird inhabits the forests of 
Surinam, Cayenne, and Demerara, and the naked-throated bell-bird is found in 
Brazil. Dr. Sclater gives the following account of the naked-throated bell-bird 
(C. nudicollis), which is figured in our engraving:—“ This bell-bird was first 
NAKED-THROATED BELL-BIRD (§ Hat. size). 
made known to science by the French naturalist Viellot, in 1815 , from specimens 
in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. But the best and in fact 
only good account of it in a state of nature, is that given by that excellent and 
observing naturalist, Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, in his Contributions to the 
Natural History of Brazil, Prince Maximilian tells us that this remarkable bird 
is one of the most singular features in the fauna of the wooded coast-reo-ion of 
Brazil, and attracts the stranger’s notice as well by its brilliant white plumage as 
by its clear ringing voice. It seems to be very generally distributed through the 
woods, resorting especially to the thickest and most secluded parts of them. Hence 
it lesulted that the prince and his party, during their expeditions in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Rio cle Janeiro, became well acquainted with its singular notes some time 
