1. TURACUS. 437 



Salmd. Vicujy. Boijos, p. ol (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) 

 i. p. 97 (1884) ; id. op. cit. (-2) v\. pp. 215, 529. 

 Musophaga leucoti.s, Schl. S,- Westenn. Toerako's, p. 13, pi. o (18G0) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pay.<<-Bas, Ciiculi, p. 75 (1864). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and chest glossy grass-green, shading 

 into deep bottle-green on the crest ; a large white spot in front of 

 the eye, followed by a small blackish patch on the cheek ; bare skin 

 round the eye red, edged in front and below by a few small black 

 feathers ; behind the ear-coverts a silky white patch, extending 

 on each side of the throat ; back and wings blue-grey, glossed 

 with green and pale blue ; tail similar, but darker ; quills, with 

 the exception of the outer one, bright crimson, with their edges 

 and shafts black ; remainder of the under surface of the bodv, 

 under tail- and wing-coverts ashy grey, the latter slightly mottled 

 with green : iris hazel ; bill yellow ; legs black. Total length 

 15-3 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 6-3, tail 8, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 15 

 inches, culmen 1*1, tail 7"3, tarsus 1'6. 



Hah. Confined to Xorth-east Africa, where it ranges from Bogos 

 throughout Abyssinia to >Shoa, but has not been recorded from 

 further south, 



a, b. Ad. sk. Bogos-Land (Hsler). Shelley Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Auseba Vallev, Aug. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 d, e. c? ad. sk. Bejook, July ( W. Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Abyssinia, Edward Wilson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



g. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



'h. (S ad. sk. Mishek, S. of Antalo, May. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 h ^- c? 2 ad. sk. Shoa, Dec. {Sir W. Harris). India Museum. 

 I. Ad. sk. White Nile. Gould Coll. 



2. Tnracus persa. 



Crown Bird from Mexico, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p, 18, pi. 19 (1738). 

 Le Coucou vert hupe de Guin^e, Brisi. Orn. iv, p. 153 (1760). 

 Cuculus persa, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 171 (1766) ; StricM. Contr. Orn. 



1851, p. 161 ; Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 335, 

 Touraco, Lath. Gen. Si/n. B. ii. p. 545 (1782) ; Edwwds, Nat. Hist. B. 



i. pi. 7 (1803). 

 Opaithus africauus {nee Lath.), Shaio, Gen. Zool. ix, p. 63, pi, 15 



(1815). 

 Turacus persa, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. .395, pi. 97. fig. 1 (1845) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 87 (1850) ; Riipp. Arch. f. Naturf/. xvii. p. 319 



(1851) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1852, pp. 69, 72 ; Grni/, Hand-l. B. ii, 



p. 125, no. 7852 (1870) ; Bourier, Cat. Marche Jjr. p. 27 (1875). 

 Musophaga persa, Temnx. Tab/. Mcth. p. 51 (1838); Schl. J. f. O. 



1854, p. 462 ; id. .S" Wosfcrm. Tncraku's, p. 16, pi. 9 (1860) ; Schl. 



Mus. Fa>/s-Bas, Cuculi, p. 76 (18(U). 

 Corvthaix persa, Hartl J. f. O. 18.54, p. 125, 1855, p. 361 ; id. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 156 (1857) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 193 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



