274 BIRDS. 



races of them, also, are known, which diflPer as to size, and even, as 

 it is said, in their notes, and in the form of the bill, Lox. curviros- 

 tra, Naum. 110, and Lox. pytiopsittacus, Bechst., Naum. 109*. 

 We cannot remove from the Bullfinches and the Crossbills 



CoRYTHUSf, CuV. 



The point of whose completely arched biU curves over the lower mandible. 

 The most known species, 



Loxia enucleator, L. ; Enl. 135, 1; or better, Edw. 123, 124; 



Vieill. Gal. 53; Naum. 112. The Pine Grosbeak inhabits the 



north of both continents, and lives in the same way as the Crossbill. 



It is red, or reddish, the feathers of the tail and wings black, edged 



with white J. 



The north of the globe produces neighbouring species of equal 



beauty as to colour, individuals of which sometimes find their way 



into Germany §. 



CoLius II, Gm. 



The Colies also approximate considerably to the preceding birds. Their 

 bill is short, thick, conical, and somewhat compressed, its two mandibles 

 being arcuated, but without extending beyond each other; the quills of 

 their tail are cuneiform, and very long ; their thumb, as in Cypselus, is 

 capable of being directed forwards like the other toes; their fine and 

 silky feathers are generally cinereous. They inhabit Africa and India, 

 climb something in the manner of Parrots, live in flocks, build many of 

 their nests on the same bush, and sleep suspended to its branches in 

 crowds, with the head downwards. They feed on fruit**. 

 Here also come the 



BuPHAGA, Briss. 



The Beef-eaters form a small genus in which the biU is of a moderate 

 length, cylindrical at the beginning, and inflated (both mandibles) near 

 the end, which terminates in a blunt point. They use it to compress the 

 skin of cattle in order to force out the larv» of the CEstrus lodged in it, 

 on which they feed. 



One species only is known, and that is from Africa; brownish. 



* Add, Lox. leucoptera, Lath. Vieill. Gall- 53, and Wils. Am, Ornith. 



\ ConjtJius, Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has changed this name 

 into that of Strobiliphaga. 



X Loxia flamengo, (Sparm. Mus. Carl. pi. xvii), appears to me to be a mere albino 

 variety of the enucleator. The Lox. psittacea of the Sandmch Islands, Lath. Syn. 

 II, pi. xlii, or PsiTTACiROSTRA icterocephala, Temm. Col. 457, appears to differ 

 from Corythus only in a little greater prolongation of the curved point of the bill. 



§ Lox. erythrina, Pall, or Fringilla flammea, L., Naum. 113, 1, 2; — Lox. rosea, 

 Pall. Naum. 113, 3; — Fr. purpurea, Wils. I, vii, 4. 



II Koloios, the Greek name of a small species of Crow. 



** Col. capensis, Enl. 282, 1; Vaill. 258, and the young, 256. This latter is the 

 C. siriatus, and the C. panayensis ; — Col. erythropus, Gm.; leuconotus, Lath, Vaill, 

 257 i— Col. gularis, Vaill. 259. 



I place near the Colies the birds called Merion natte (Malurus texlilis, Less.), and 

 Merion kucoptere {M. leucopierus, Id.), Voy. de Freycin. pi. 23. 



