MTJS0PHAGrD.T5. 435 



Family MUSOPHAGID^E. 



(By G. E. SHELLEY.) 



Feet semi-zygodactyle, the fourth or outer toe capable of being 

 turned either backwards or forwards. 



Palate desmoguathons. 



Easipterygoid processes absent. 



Hallux present, connected with the flexor longus hallucis, not 

 witli the flexor perforans digitorum, which leads to the second, 

 third, and fourth digits. 



Tail-feathers ten. 



Pterylosis : spinal feather-tract well detined on the neck by lateral 

 bare tracts, but with no interscapular fork. 



Confined to the Ethiopian Region. 



On a peculiar colouring-matter, Turadn, discovered by A. H. 

 Church in tlie feathers of the Touracous, see Philos. Trans, vol. i"j9 

 (1869), p. '627. 



Cf. Schalo2v, J.f. O. 1886, pp. 1-77. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Nostrils concealed 1 . Turacus, p. 43o. 



b. Nostrils exposed. 



a'. Nostrils oval, not placed iu a groove and 



not nearer to the forehead than to the tip 



of the bill. 



a". Bill small and black ; base of culmen 



hiilden by feathers ; with crimson on the 



quills as in Turacus -2. Gallirex, p. 4 |(!. 



//'. Bill lar";or, red and yellow; entire bill 

 exposed. 

 a'". Bill broad, culmen rounded and not 



compressed behind the nostrils ; with [p. 447. 



crimson on the quills as iu Turacus. . 3. Musophaga, 

 b'". Bill flattened, culmen compressed 



throughout its length ; with no crim- [p. 440. 



son on the quills 4. Corythjeola, 



b'. Nostrils linear, placed in a partially curved 

 groove and nearer to the forehead than to 

 the tip of the bill ; with no red or blue on 

 the plumage. [P- ^^■ 



c". Front half of the bead feathered 5. Schizorhis, 



d". Front half of the head bare 0. Gymnoschizoriiis, 



[p. 455. 



1. TURACUS. ^^^ 



Turacus, Cuv. Le<;ons d'Anat. Comp. i. tab. 2 



(1800) T- macrorhynchus. 



Touraco, Laciphle, Mhn. List. Paris, iii. p. 504 



ngOl) T. ninrrorhjTichus. 



2f 2 



