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228 in Brazil, Mr. Swainson was not so fortunate as to meet with a single specimen, though he occasionally heard of one being seen; and he addsthat in Guiana, it appears to have become rare, for in a collection of many hundreds [of birds] made in that country by Mr. Schomburgk, there were not three species of the whole genus.

The nest of this bird is built on trees, of branches interlaced with the stalks of herbaceous plants, internally lined with leaves. It lays but once a year, during the rainy season, when six or eight eggs are deposited, as large as those of a Turkey, but white like those of a Hen, and with