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MTTSOPHAGIDJ!. 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 125, no. 7849 (1870) ; Boiivier, Cat. 

 MarcTie ^r. p. 27 (1875). 

 Musophao-a macrorhyncba, ScM. 6|- Wesferm. Toerako's, p. 15, pi. 7 

 (1860).^ 



Adult. Head, neck, anrl fore part of chest grass-green ; feathers 

 of the crest tipped with black and with a subterminal white bar ; 

 bare skin round the eye red, with some very small black feathers 

 which form a patch of black on the cheeks : behind this black 

 patch a baud of white feathers extending to below the ear-coverts ; 

 mantle, wings, and upper tail-coverts glossy violet-blue ; quills 

 crimson and black, as in all the foregoing species ; remainder of 

 the back blacker and less glossed than the mantle ; tail glossy 

 greenish violet, greener than the mantle; remainder of the body, 

 under tail- and wing-coverts dusky black, slightly glossed with 

 bluish green : bill yellow, partially shaded with orange ; iris 

 brown ; legs black. Total length 17"5 inches, culmen 1-15, 

 wing 6-7, tail 7'8, tarsus 1'55. 



In one specimen the white subterminal bars of the crest are 

 partially washed with red, and in another, probably immature, 

 these white bars are almost absent, and the ends of the feathers 

 dusky green instead of black. 



ffah. West Africa generally from the Gaboon and Fernando Po 

 to Seuegambia. 



a, h. Ad. st. West Africa. Zoological Society. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape Palmas. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Ancobra River, "\^'asa. Captains Burton and 



Cameron [P.]. 



e. f. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. Gould Coll. 

 g^h,i. Ai.sk. Tantee (H. T. UssJier). Sharpe Coll. 

 k. Ad. sk. Cape Coast Castle. Shelley Coll. 



10. Turacus meriani. 



Corythaix meriani, Hupp. Arch. f. Natur(). xvii. p. 319 (1851) 

 Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 157 (1857) ; Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 189 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 605 : Seicketi. J. f. O. 1877, p. 14 

 Bocaqe, Orn. Angola, p. 541 (1881) ; Schuloiv, J.f. O. 1886, p. 37 

 Shelieij, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 123. 



Turacus persa {nee Linn.), J. ^- U. Verr. Pev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, 

 p. 257. 



Tm-acus meriani, Hartl. Arch. f. Natnrg. xviii. p. 18 (1852); Jarcl. 

 Contr. Orn. 18.52, pp. 72, "77 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 125, 

 no. 7850 (1870) ; Bouvier, Cat. Marche Sj-c. p. 27 (1875). 



Musophaga verreauxi, Sehl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 462. 



Corythaix persa, Cass. Proc. Ac. Philad. viii. p. 319 (1857). 



Musophaga meriani, Schl. ^- Westerm. Toerako^s, p. 16, pi. 18 (1860). 



Adult male. Similar in plumage to T. macrorhyncJius, but differs 

 in having the crest-feathers tipped with crimson, and in wanting 

 tlie subterminal white bar. Total length 14'5 inches, culmen I'l, 

 wing 6-5, tail 7"5, tarsus VQ. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the ends of the 



