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Musophaga macrorhyncha , Sclil, Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, 

 p. 76. 



Hab. West Africa, from Sierra Leoue to the Gaboon. 



A large series collected on the banks of the St Paul's 

 and in the Grand Cape Mount Country. A splendid and 

 very lively bird in its wild state , always keeping in the 

 densest crowns of the virgin forest , where it lives in pairs 

 or , after the breeding season , together with its young ones. 

 Shy as it is, it could not easily be found by the hunts- 

 man, if it did not betray itself by its crow-like voice, 

 interrupted, now and then, by a mewing, exactly like 

 that of a cat. When not disturbed , these birds can be 

 very noisy, flapping their beautiful red wings and running 

 after each other, like squirrels, along the branches. As 

 their splendid wings would be too obvious to their enemies , 

 they seldom fly very far at once, but advance by running 

 through the foliage of the trees, hidden by the conformity 

 of color between their plumage and that of the leaves. 

 Their food consists of different kinds of wild fruits ; insects 

 were never found in dissected specimens. 



Young birds have the crest uniform green, instead of 

 edged with white and black, as shows a semi-adult fe- 

 male, collected at Bavia (1st February 1880). 



Iris dark brown, bill carmine at base, culmen and tip 

 orange yellow; feet blackish gray. Bare space round the 

 eye crimson. 



Tit racus gig anteus. 



Turacus giganteiis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1205; — Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 159; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 133. 



Musophaga gigantea, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 77. 



Hab. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Angola; Niam 

 Niam Country (Bohndorffj. 



Several examples from the St. Paul's and from Grand 

 Cape Mount. 



This largest of all plantain-eaters is confined exclusively 



Notes from tlie Ley den. IMtiseiim, "Vol. "VII. 



