MUSOPHAGID^} 



TUBACUS 



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and blue with a peculiar red pigment (turacin) on the wing- 

 quills. 



Seventeen species of this genus, which is confined to the Ethio- 

 pian region, are recognised ; only two of these are found within our 

 limits. 



FIG. 70. Left foot of Turacus corythaix. x \. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Crest evenly rounded throughout T. corythaix, p. 213. 



B. Crest with the anterior portion much elongated, 



so that it is pointed in front T. livingstonii, p. 216. 



479. Turacus corythaix. Knysna Plantain Eater or Lourie. 



Le Touracou Louri, Levaill Hist. Nat. Promcrops, p. 29, pi. xvi (1806). 

 Spelectos corythaix, Wagler, Syst. Av. Spelcctos, sp. i (1827). 

 Corythaix musophaga, Dubois, Gel. Ois. p. 2, pi. ii (1839) ; Gurney. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 255 [Natal] ; Shelley, Ibis', 1875, p. 81 [near Durban] ; 



Sharpc, ed. LayarcVs B. S. Afr. p. 141 (1875) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 199 ; Ayres, i.e. p. 432 [Lydenburg]. 



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