230 CRIMSON-CRESTED TOURACO. 



green, inclining to blueish on the body and belly 

 the greater and lesser quills are of that peculiar rich 

 lilac or purple-red so prevalent in this genus ; the 

 feet are greyish-black, and the tail is rounded. 



It appears that the figures given by Yieillot and 

 Temminck were both taken from the same indivi- 

 dual, yet in the first the crest is conspicuously edged 

 with white, a character entirely omitted by the 

 second ; which of these is correct, we have no means 

 of ascertaining. 



Having now enumerated all those birds belonging 

 to the typical or Conirostral tribe of the Perchers, 

 which we can personally vouch to be natives of 

 Western Africa, we shall at once proceed to the 

 sub-typical or Dentirostral tribe, which, as most of 

 our readers already know, represents the rapacious 

 order ; many of the species living upon small birds, 

 and all upon some part of the animal creation. 



