228 SENEGAL TOURACO. 



covers and interscapulars ; and is likewise extended 

 to the under plumage as far as the breast, beyond 

 which it becomes obscured and darkened with 

 blackish. 



It is possible that the white stripe beneath the 

 eye, the absence of which induces us to consider the 

 Senegal Touraco for the present as a distinct species* 

 may be developed in very adult age; but this is 

 mere conjecture ; and in the mean time, the absence 

 of this mark and of the red tips to the crest is uni- 

 formly the same in five or six individuals we have 

 examined, and will distinguish this from the species 

 figured by Edwards. 



Total length about 16 inches ; bill from the gape, 

 1 T ] ; wings, 7 ; tail beyond, 5^ ; ditto from the 

 base, 8 ; tarsus, 1^ ; middle toe and claw 1 T 8 5 ; 

 lateral ditto, 1 T 2 ; hind ditto, T 8 <j. 



CRIMSON-CRESTED TOURACO. 



Corythaix erythrolophus, SWAINS 



Crest of the head erect, compressed, red ; face, ears, and 

 chin, white ; body green ; quill-feathers lilac. 



Op03thus erythrolophus, Vieill. Diet. cTffist. Nat. xxxiv, 306 ; 

 Godlerie des Ois. PI. 49, p. 46 Musophaga Paulina, Temm. 

 PL Col., pi. 23. 



OF this rare and most lovely bird we have never 

 yet seen a specimen, but as no doubt exists of its 

 being an inhabitant of that part of Africa we are 



