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fifth quills rather longest ; tail moderate, rounded ; tarsi and 
acrotarsia divided, two outermost toes nearly of equal length. 
Polysticte Quopopa. Crested, crest, back of neck, intersca- 
pulars, wing coverts, and a broad crescent on anterior part of 
breast, black-blue, with a shining metallic gloss ; the inter- 
scapulars and coverts broadly tipt with white, the crescent 
on breast variegated with pale rose coloured spots; front, 
crown, sides of head, chin, andanterior part of belly, sulphur 
yellow, variegated with blood red spots or stripes; back, 
hinder portion of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, greenish 
yellow; upper wing coverts crimson; quills brown, outer vanes 
barred with white ; tail black-blue, both vanes partially barred 
with white and broadly tipt with the same colour. Length 
83 inches. Inhabits from Kurrichaine to the Tropic. 
Family Musopnacips. Sw. 
Genus Puruus. Wagl. 
Sub-genus CoLIPHIMUS. 
Bill short, compressed, margin of upper mandible obtusely 
angulated and notched near tip, culmen strongly arched from 
base; nostrils oblong, open; wings moderate, pointed, fifth 
quill longest, fourth and sixth equal; tail long, spreading, 
slightly rounded. 
Coliphimus concolor. Forehead surmounted by a large and point- 
ed crest of decomposed feathers of the same dull grey colour 
as the rest of the body; quills brown, glossed with coppery 
ereen; tail rounded, two centre feathers brown, lateral ones 
blackish green. Length 173 inches. Inhabits the country 
from Kurrichaine to the Tropic. 
Genus Perprx, Lin. 
Perdiz Swainsonii. Space round eyes, chin, and part of 
throat, bare and deep red; neck black brown, feathers 
edged with white ; interscapulars rusty grey, each with a 
brown stripe in the course of the shaft; back, rump, and 
upper tail coverts finely variegated, yellowish white and 
brown; beneath rusty grey, each feather with a brown 
stripe in the course of the shaft, and the belly with dashes 
of deep chesnut; tail light brown,with oblique, waved, dark 
brown lines. Length 14 inches. Inhabits the banks of 
Rivers beyond Kurrichaine. 
Perdix Lechoho. Top of head rusty brown, neck mottled 
black-brown and white; back and tail pale rusty yellow, 
tinted with grey, and closely mottled with brown in waved 
irregular lines, many of the feathers towards their centres 
eS dark brown stripe ; beneath irregularly spotted dark 
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