174 riCARi^E. 



Genii8 COLIUS*. 

 Brisson, Ornitli. iii. p. 304 (1700). 



Colius colius. 



Loxia colius, Linnteus. Syst. Xat. i. p. 301 (1706). 

 Colitis capensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 842 (1788); Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's Birds S. Afr. pp. 552, 853 (1884). 



The Cape Coly. 



Ilah. South Africa. 



746. Natural skeleton : mounted. 0. C. A. 1478 a. 



Purchased. 



747. Natural skeleton of niale : mounted. 



Prefiented hi/ Afr. .7. AhraJiams. 



Family AL( ^EDINIDJE f. 



A. Palate desmognatlious. 



B. Basipterygoid j)rocesses absent. 



Fi-.-H. 



■mpl p pi 



PO 



Ventral aspect of skull of Dacelo giyas. Letters as before. 



* Cf. Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-Skelet. Lief. x. Taf. xciii. {Colius nii/ricullis). 



i' Cf. Murie, ' Anatomy of the Kingfishers ' ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 629, 1874, p. 510; Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-Skelet. Lief. iii. Taf.xvi. {Cittura 

 sanyhirensis), Taf. xvii. {Tanysipfera f/alafen and Sauromarptis (/aiidichaudi). 



