. A general synopsis of birds . furnifhed with a few briflles: the irides yellow tand the tongue feathered, like that of a Toucan : the upper partand fides of the bill are encompafled with black, which runsthrough the eyes, and below them, ending in a point: the mid-dle of the crown is black ; between that and the bill blue green;,and the hind head blue, fo that the crown feems furrounded withblue; below this the colour is cheftnut: the hind part of theneck, back, fcapulars, and rump, green: quills blueiih, withdufky ends : the under parts of the body greenifh buff-colour:on the breaft are thr
. A general synopsis of birds . furnifhed with a few briflles: the irides yellow tand the tongue feathered, like that of a Toucan : the upper partand fides of the bill are encompafled with black, which runsthrough the eyes, and below them, ending in a point: the mid-dle of the crown is black ; between that and the bill blue green;,and the hind head blue, fo that the crown feems furrounded withblue; below this the colour is cheftnut: the hind part of theneck, back, fcapulars, and rump, green: quills blueiih, withdufky ends : the under parts of the body greenifh buff-colour:on the breaft are three or four narrow black feathers, forming aipot of that colour : the tail is tea inches and a half long, com-poled of twelve feathers, and much cuneated; the two middlefeathers are above three inches and a half lons-er than the next,and the outer ones of all very fhort; the fix middle ones aregreen, with the ends blue, and four of them tipped with black ;the others are wholly green, with the tips dufky : the legs10 brown: t_y<Jrtz^ ^. M O T M O T. 339 brown : the toes placed three before and one behind : the clawshooked and black. This bird is found at Braftl, Cayenne, Mexico, and other parts of Place andSouth America, where it is faid to live on infects, k is a folitary , frequenting thick forefts; feen for the mofl part fingly,chiefly on the ground, or fome low branch of a tree, taking fhortflights when difturbed, and pronouncing the word Houtou. It makes the neft on the ground, frequently in fome hole de-ferted by an Armadillo, or other quadruped; the neft is com-pofed of dry grafs and ftalks; laying therein for the mofl parttwo eggs. The flefh is not accounted good to eat. It may not be amifs here to take notice of the two middle tailfeathers, which, in Edwardss plate, and the defcription of au-thors, of the bird, are bare of webs for an inch and half, or more,near the ends. I have feen birds in this fituation, and believe itto be a frequen
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