MUSOPHAGID^ TURACUS 213 



and blue with a peculiar red pigment (turaciu) on the wing- 

 quills. 



Seventeen species of this genus, which is confined to the Ethio- 

 pian region, are "recognised ; only two of these are found within our 

 limits. 



Fig. 70. —Left foot of Turacus corytliaix. x \. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Crest evenly rounded throughoixt T. corythaix, p. 213. 



B. Crest with the anterior portion much elongated, 



so that it is pointed in front T. Jivingstonii, p. 216. 



479. Turacus corythaix. Knysna Plantain Eater or Loiirie. 



Le Touracou Louri, Leva ill. Hist. Nat.Promerops, p. 29, pi. xvi (1806). 

 Spelectos corythaix, Wagler, Sysf. Av. Sj^electos, sp. i (1827). 

 Corythaix musophaga, Dubois, Gel. Ois. p. 2, pi. ii (1839) ; Gurney. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 255 [Natal] ; Shdleij, Ibis, 1875, p. 81 [near Durban] ; 



Sharpp, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 141 (1875) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 199 ; Ayres, t.c. p. 432 [Lydenburg]. 



