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belly, vent, and under tail coverts, rusty wood brown. 
Length 83 inches, Inhabits the country between Latakoo 
and the Tropic. 
When an opportunity occurs of comparing this bird with the various 
forms of the Corvide, its true place may be found in another family, 
and the resemblances, particularly as regards its habits, may be those 
of analogy and not affinity. 
Genus Cinnyris. Ow. 
Cinnyris Mariquensis. Head, neck, and upper part of body, 
green gold, with a splendid coppery gloss; breast crimson, 
edged in front by a narrow steel blue band; wings brown; 
belly and tail black. Length 4°; inches. Inhabits the country 
north of Kurrichaine. 
Cinnyris talatala. Head, neck, and upper parts of body, 
green gold; chin inclined to purple ; anterior part of breast 
deep violet blue, with a bright purple gloss; belly white ; 
under each wing an oblong sulphur yellow spot ; wings brown; 
tail black, the outer vanes of feathers edged with green gold. 
Length 4 inches. Inhabits the country between the Orange 
River and Kurrichaine. 
Genus Curygoptinus. Sw. 
Chrysoptilus Bennettii. Top of head, and a longitudinal 
band behind gape, crimson red ; upper parts of body green- 
brown, barred irregularly with pale greenish yellow ; cheeks, 
chin, and eyebrows, yellowish white; beneath pale golden 
yellow, breast and belly variegated with rounded black- 
brown spots; tail indistinctly barred brown and golden 
yellow, the tips of feathers black brown. Length 7} inches. 
Inhabits the country about and beyond Kurrichaine, 
Chrysoptilus Abingoni. Top of head, and a longitudinal 
band behind gape, a dark slate colour, sprinkled with red ; 
elongated feathers of hind head bright scarlet; body above 
olive brown and golden green, with one or more pale yellow 
diamond shaped spots on each feather; chin aud throat white, 
with longitudinal black stripes ; breast and belly straw 
yellow, with similar stripes; tail olive brown, with dull 
golden yellow bars, tips of feathers dull golden yellow. 
Length 73 inches. Occurs in the same localities with the 
last. 
Specimens of this species were obtained near Port Natal in 1832. 
Sub-family Bucconinm. Sv. 
Sub-genus Porysticrn. 
Bill compressed, pointed, the edges of upper mandible towards 
base dilated, culmen arched ; nostrils basal, round, and open ; 
rictus slightly bristled ; wings short, rounded, the fourth and 
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