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SENEGAL TOcRACO. 



Coryihaix Senegalvnsis, S\VAIN8. 

 PLATE XXI. 



Glossy purple ; head, neck, breast, and crest, green ; orbits 

 naked, red ; a snowy white stripe before and partly above 

 the eye, with a black one beneath ; crest entirely green. 



Corythaix Buffonii, Jardine and Selby^s Ittust. of Orn. pi. 1 22. 



THE Touraco or Crowned Plantain-eaters are per- 

 haps the most elegant of the Musophagidce ; for they 

 have the splendid crimson wings of the violet species, 

 with a liveliness of colour in the full green of their 

 plumage which that does not possess. Their crests 

 also are conspicuous ornaments. Le Vaillant, with 

 national enthusiasm, extols these birds, in a state of 

 nature, as replete with charms (pleines decharmesj 

 in all their movements and attitudes, uniting the 

 greatest agility with perfect elegance. He found 

 them extremely difficult to shoot, as they always 

 frequent the topmost branches of the highest forest 

 trees ; subsequently, however, he captured many of 

 them in snares. Like the Musophaga, they live 

 entirely upon fruits. 



Considerable confusion has always hung over 

 these birds ; for although Buffon indicated at least 



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