436 MUSOPHAGID^. 



Type. 



Corythaix, III. Prodr. p. 202 (1811) T. leucotis. 



Opsethus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 29 (1816) T. erytbroloplius. 



Coiythrix, Fle^n. Phil. Zool. ii. p. 2o0 (1822). 

 Spelectos, Wagl. Syst. Av. Spelectos, fol. 8, p. 3 



(1827) T. corythaix. 



Mancje. Confined to Trojncal and Southern Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Anterior half of crown gi'ass-green. 



a'. Crest bottle-green ; with a white patch on 



sides of neck leiicotis, p. 436. 



6'. Crest uniform green with no white or red tips. 

 a". With a partially defined black baud under 



the eye and a strongly marked white one. persa, p. 437. 

 b". With a strongly marked black band under 

 the eye and only a slight streak of white 



underneath (often absent) bitffoni, p. 438. 



c'. Crest uniform green, tipped with white, 

 c". Metallic portion of back and wings green. 

 a'". With the tail violet-blue, contrasting 

 with the back and wings ; crest 4 inches 



in length schaloivi, p. 439. 



b'" . With the tail green; crest-feathers not 

 2-5 inches long. 

 a^. With an elongated crest. 



a'. Tail bluer than back livingstoni, p. 439. 



¥. Back bluer than tail reichenoivi, p. 440. 



6*. Crest evenly rounded corythaix, p. 440. 



d". Metallic portion of the back and wings blue 



like the tail schuetti, p. 441. 



d'. Crest uniform green, tipped with black and 



with a white subterminal bar on each of the [p. 441 . 



feathers macj'orhynchus, 



e . Crest imiform green, tipped with red meriani, p. 442. 



/'. Crest green and red, tipped with white .... Jischeri, p. 443. 

 b. ' Anterior half of crown not green. 



(/'. Upper half of head red, crest tipped with [p. 444. 



white erythrohphus, 



h' . Forehead and crown violet : crest white .... leucolophus, p. 444. 

 i'. Entire upper half of head steel-blue, with a 



white patch in front of the eye hartlaubi, p. 445. 



1. Turacus leucotis. 



Le To-iu-aco d'Abyssinie, Biif. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 386 (1783). 



Corythaix leucotis, Piipp. Neue Wirb., Vog. p. 8, pi. 3 (1835-40) ; 

 Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 99 (1860) ; Finsch, Trans. Z. S. 

 vi:. p. 276 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 701 (1871) ; Sharps, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 11 (1871) ; Schahxo, J. f. O. 1886, p. 41. 



Turacus leucotis, Piipp. Syst Uebers. p. 80 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 ii. p. 395 (1845) ; Riipp. Arch.f. Naturg. xvii. p. 321 (1851) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 125, no 7857 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss. 

 p. 316 (1870); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. cliii (1872); Ant in. I- 



