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SPECTACLE TODY. 

 Platystera Icbata, SWAINS. 

 PLATE XXII. 



Male Above glossy blue-black, with an angulated stripe of 

 white on the wings ; beneath white, with a black bar upon 

 the breast ; lobe of the eye red. 



Female. Above cinereous ; chin white ; throat chestnut. 



Mus. melanoptera, Gmelin Platystera collaris et Desmaresti, 



Jardine and Selby, III. of Orn. i. PI. 9 Platys. lobata, 8w. 

 West, Afr. ii. p. 49. 



HAVING already, in a former volume of this work, 

 fully described those two birds, which we consider 

 are the sexes of our P. lobata^ it is scarcely neces- 

 sary to repeat the same in this. It seems to be by 

 no means uncommon in Western Africa, but does 

 not extend to the southern part of that continent, at 

 .east it is not among the other species of this genus 

 figured by Le Vaillant. The feet are syndactyle. 



The annexed figure represents what we consider 

 as the female, a red or rufous breast being the dis- 

 tinguishing mark of this sex in the two species 

 figured by Le Vaillant. See his Ois. d'Afr. vol. iv. 

 pi. 160, 16 J. 



Total length about 4 inches ; bill from the gape, 

 J J ; from the front, -j 7 5 ; wings, 2 ; tail from the 

 base, 2. 



We shall now offer some additional remarks upon 



