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MUSOPHAGID^ 



TURACUS 



Turaeus albocristatus, StricM. Ann. Nat. Hist, vii, p. 33 (1841), 

 Corythaix albocristatus, Grill, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockholm, ii, 



no. 10, p. 45 [Knysna] ; Verreaux, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 40. 

 Musophaga albicristata, ScJil and Westerm,Toeral:o's, p. 18, pi. xi (1866), 

 Turaeus persa, (nee Linn.), Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 223 (1867) ; id. Ihifi, 



1869, p. 372 ; Holnb ^ PeU. Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 138 (1882). 

 Turaeus eorythaix, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 440 (1891); id. B. Afr. i, 



p. 119 (1896); Bendnll, Ibis, 1896, p. 168 [Barberton]; Woodivard 



Bros. Natal B. p. 121 (1899) ; id. Ihis, 1900, p. 519 [St. Lucia Bay]. 

 "Lourie" of Colonists ; "Igolomi" of Amaxosa (Stanford) ; " Igwala- 



wala" of the Zulus (AYoodward), 



Fig. 71. — Turaeus corythaix. x fg. 



Description. Adult male. — Head, neck all round, throat and 

 chest grass-green ; the tips of the long feathers of the crown which 

 form an evenly rounded crest, white ; in front and below the eye a 

 black spot separates a short white eyebrow from another white 

 stripe which runs from below the eye to the ear-coverts ; back 

 greenish-blue becoming steely-blue or green on the wings and tail ; 

 wing-quills including the outer secondaries bright crimson edged 

 and tipped with dusky-black; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 slaty. 



Iris brown, bare skin round the eye red ; bill orange-red ; legs 

 black. 



