9. Pompadora, Lin. Ste. Pompadour, or Grey Chat terer. Purple, with the feathers of the greater wing coverts sword-shaped. The tail is composed of twelve feathers, and exceeds the wings by seven or eight lines, the length of the bird being seven inches and a half. The Pompadour chatterer is erratic, appearing in Guiana, in the neighbourhood of inhabited places, in the months of March and September. The natives call it Parapaca.
4. catinga, Lin. &c. Purple-breasted Chatterer. Splen did blue above, purple beneath, wings and tail hlack. Length, nearly nine inches The female has all the upper parts of the body of a fine blue, the throat, neck and breast, purple, and the belly and vent blue, in some places varied with black. But various sportings of colouring are quoted.
4. variegata, Lath. Variegated Chatterer. Grey, with black, spear-shaped wattles on the throat. Sonnini's de scription of the male bird is only applicable to its first at tire. In its mature state, it is of a light grey hue, ap proaching to white, with the wings black, and a great many flattened caruncles, at least an inch long, and a line in breadth, on the naked throat. Levaillant and Cuvier have
very unaccountably ranked this species as only a variety of the Cayana, to which it bears hardly any resemblance, and which has no wattles on the throat. The Portuguese of Brazil term the variegated chatterer ../Iverano, or Sum pter Bird, because it exerts its loud and disagreeable cry in December and January, summer months in that quarter of the world. This cry is, at times, peculiarly grating, like the sound produced by striking a blocli of iron with a sharp instrument,-at other times it may be compared to that of a cracked bell.
_1. Tern. etc. Carunculated Chatterer.
White, with the rump quills and tail-feathers inclining to yellowish, forehead naked, with an elongated caruncle. Twelve inches in length. The note of this bird, which consists of only the two syllables, ang, ong, uttered in a drawling kind of tone, is, nevertheless, lotid enough to be heard at the distance of half a league.