Key to the Species. 



A. Ouly colours black and yellow; high crest. 



(Melanociiloha.) mltaneiis, p. 6. 



B. General colour black ; no crest. 

 (/. All the upper parts uniform black. 



a'. Ih-east and abdomen blackish. 



«". i'rimaries and wing-coverts edged with 



white ni<jet\ p. 7. 



b". No trace of white on the quills; all the 

 upper and under parts uniform blackish 



slaty funereus, p. 9. 



b'. Breast and abdomen white albivcnter, p. 10. 



b. Centre of mantle dull creamy Icucoiiutus, p. 10, 



C. Principal colours white and blue ; entire throat 



and most of the underparts white. 



c. Crown of head pure white; all the under- 



parts white ct/amis, p. 10. 



d. A light yellow crescent on the fore neck .... ] /' '|^- iS' 



D. Principal colours black and yellow, with blue 



or white in the plumage. 



e. Crown and wing-coverts blue. 



c'. Mantle and back olive-grey persiciis, p. 14. 



d'. Mantle and back yellowish green ccertdeus, p. 12. 



e' . Mantle and back greyish blue teneriffce, p. 14. 



/. Brown; the whole throat, fore neck, and 

 centre of breast black. 

 /'.No crest. 



c". Sides of neck and ear-coverts white. . . . minor, p. 15. 

 d" . Sides of neck and ear-coverts yellow. 

 a'". No white spots on the mantle, back, 

 and quills. 



a^. Wing-coverts bluish major, p. 19. 



6'. Wing-coverts black motiticolus, p. 20. 



b'". Large white spots on mantle and 

 quills. 

 c^. Ear-coverts black like the head. . . . amabilis, p. 22. 



d\ Ear- 

 ff'. With a hi 



eai'-coverts yellow. 



e". Feathers of crest plain black i xantho(,emjs, p. 24. 



I haplonotiis, p. 25. 

 /". Feathers of crest with yellow tips .... sjulonotus, p. 26. 



E. Dull-coloured birds, with a high crest. (Lopho- 



PHANES.) 



(/. Crest black, all its feathers edged with white cristatus, p. 27. 

 /(. Crest black, without any edgings of white. 

 h'. Throat black. 



g". Entire crown and crest black ; no frontal 

 band. 

 c'". Wing-coverts tipped with fawn .... mehinulvphus, p. 28. 

 d'". No tips to the wiug-coverts. 

 e*. Abdomen dark grey. 



rt'. Larger : wing 3'0 inches rnfunuchalis, p. 29. 



b'\ Smaller : wing 2-2 inches beamni, p. 29. 



f*. Abdomen tawny ochraceous riibidicenter, p. 30. 



lar-coverts yellow | '%«'f . P- 22. 



ugh black crest ; sides of neck and ' '""^^^^^^^^ P- 23. 



