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other tail feathers black, with a broad white space 

 at the extremity of each of the three outermost ; 

 the fourth just tipped with white ; primaries and 

 wing coverts bright rufous ; throat, sides of the 

 neck, and all the under parts, white ; upper man- 

 dible black, edged with yellow at the base ; 

 lower mandible yellow, tipped with black ; legs 

 black; tarsi long, naked." * 



TENUIROSTRES. 



Among the Tenuirostres, the fourth great 

 tribe of the Incessores, we have only in Britain 

 a solitary example, the members of all tho 

 families belonging chiefly to tropical climates. 

 It is here that we have arranged the beautiful 

 Humming-Birds and Sun-Birds, and the gorge- 

 ous Birds of Paradise, also the Honey Suckers of 

 New Holland and the Indian Isles with the Pro- 

 meripidce, to which our British form belongs, 

 constituting the genus Upupa of Linnaeus, and 

 containing only two well authenticated species, 

 the one belonging to Europe* and it is said to 

 Northern Africa, the other being a bird of Sou- 

 thern Africa. 



UPUPA, Linn. Generic characters. Bill 

 long, slender, compressed, curved, nostrils 



* Jenyn's Brit. Vertebrata. Description of specimen 

 in collection of Zool. Society. 



