240 BIRDS. 



A. cotinga, Ij., Ze C'orJow ftZew, Eiil. 186 and 188. Of the most 

 beautiful ultramarine, with a violet breast, frequently traversed by 

 a large blue band and spotted with dark yellow*. 



Tersina, Vieill. 



This subgenus consists of crown-birds whose bills are a little wider at 

 their basef. 



Ceblepyris;};, Cuv. 



Has, in addition to the bill of the crown-birds, a singular character, which 

 consists in the somewhat prolonged, stiiF, and spiny stems of their rump 

 feathers. They are found in India and Africa, where they feed upon ca- 

 terpillars which they collect upon the highest trees, but they have nothing 

 of the lustre of the true crown birds. Their tail, somewhat forked in the 

 middle, is sloped on the sides §. 

 We may also separate from them, 



BoMBYCiLLA, Briss. 



The Chatterers, in which the head is ornamented with a toupet of fea- 

 thers somewhat longer than the rest, possess, moreover, another singu- 

 lar character in the secondary quills of the wing, — the ends of the stems 

 being enlarged into an oval, smooth, and red disk. There is one in Eu- 

 rope named, we know not why, 



A.garrulus, L. Enl. 261. (The Bohemian Chatterer). Some- 

 what larger than a finch; plumage of a vinous grey; throat black; 

 tail black, edged with yellow at the tip ; wings black, variegated with 

 white. This bird visits Europe in flocks, at long intervals, and 

 without regularity, from which circumstance, its presence, for a long 

 time, was considered as an evil omen. It is very stupid, is easily 

 captured and brought up ; eats of every thing, and a great quantity. 

 It is thought to build its nest in the extreme north. The flesh is 

 esteemed a great delicacy. 



There is another species in America, extremely similar, but rather 

 smaller, Ampelis garrulus, b, Lin. ; Amp. Americana,Vf\\s. I. vii. 1 ; 

 Bomhycilla carolinensis, Wils. ; Bomb, cerfron/m, Vieill., Gal. 118; 

 Vaill. Ois. de Par., I. pi. 50. 



There is also one in i^tdia., B. phcenicoptera, Tern.', Col. 450, 

 which has no appendages to the wings, and the tips of whose tail and 

 little wing-coverts are red. 



* Add A. cayana, Enl. 624. — A. maynana, Enl. 299. — J. cucuUata, t., Col. 363, 

 Swains. Zool. 111. 37. — A. caprea, Merremic, Av., 1, 2, appears to be a variety of the 

 carnifex. 



t A. tersa, Gm., La Tersine, BufF., Vieill. 119, or Procne tersine, Tem. Col. 5, or 

 Procnias hirundhiacea, Swains. Zool. 111. 21. 



X The Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has since given to this genus 

 the name of Campephaga. 



§ Such are the Muse, cnna, Gm., Enl. 541, or the Echenilleur cendre, Vaill. Afr., 

 pi. clxii. Vieill., Galer. 130; the Echenilleur noir, Vaill. Ixiv. His Ech. janne pl.lxiii. 

 istheyoung of the Tiirdusphoenicopterus,Tem., Col. 71. — \dd Cebl.fimbriatus, Tem., 

 Col. 249, 250. 



