COMMON OXPECKER. 201 



Another species has of late years been discovered 

 in Abyssinia, which we have a slight recollection of 

 seeing in the Paris Museum ; it very much resem- 

 bled, if our memory serves us right, the one now 

 before us, but differed in the colour, &c. of the 

 bill. 



This second species, the Tanagra erythroryncha of 

 Salt's Travels, seems to be that which has lately 

 been republished as new by M. Temminck. 



General colour greyish or smoky brown, which 

 spreads over all the upper plumage except the 

 rump, and extends to the chin and fore part of the 

 throat, this tint then becomes buff-coloured or 

 fulvous-yellow from the breast downwards ; the 

 rump and both tail-covers are likewise pale buff. 

 The tail is greyish-brown, with the inner webs of 

 the lateral tail-feathers more or less rufous ; its form 

 is cuneated, the shafts being strong and somewhat 

 rigid, and the tips gradually narrowed ; inner wing- 

 covers black ; bill with the basal half of a rich 

 orange yellow, the terminal portion being scarlet; 

 feet brown ; the tail is lighter than the wings, but 

 the shafts of the middle feathers are dark brown 

 and those of the sides rufous. 



Total length about 9^ inches ; bill, from the 

 gape, $ ; ditto, from the front, ^ ; wings, 4 J ; 

 tail beyond, 2 ; ditto, from the base, 4 ; tarsus, $. 



We now quit the order of Insessores and enter 

 upon that of the Rasores or Gallinaceous Birds, 

 the most aberrant family of which are the Pigeons, 



