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fifth quills rather longest ; tail moderate, rounded ; tarsi and 

 acrotarsia divided, two outermost toes nearly of equal length. 



Polysticte Quopopa. Crested, crest, back of neck, intersca- 

 pulars, wing coverts, and a broad crescent on anterior part of 

 breast, black-blue, with a shining metallic gloss ; the inter- 

 scapulars and coverts broadly tipt with white, the crescent 

 on breast variegated with pale rose coloured spots ; front, 

 crown, sides of head, chin, and anterior part of belly, sulphur 

 yellow, variegated with blood red spots or stripes ; back, 

 hinder portion of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, greenish 

 yellow; upper wing coverts crimson; quills brown, outer vanes 

 barred with white ; tail black-blue, both vanes partially barred 

 with white and broadly tipt with the same colour. Length 

 8J inches. Inhabits from Kurrichaine to the Tropic. 



Family MUSOPHAGID^;. Sw. 



Genus PHIMUS. Wagl. 

 Sub-genus COLIPHIMUS. 



Bill short, compressed, margin of upper mandible obtusely 

 angulated and notched near tip, culmen strongly arched from 

 base ; nostrils oblong, open ; wings moderate, pointed, fifth 

 quill longest, fourth and sixth equal ; tail long, spreading, 

 slightly rounded. 



Goliphimus concolor. Forehead surmounted by a large and point- 

 ed crest of decomposed feathers of the same dull grey colour 

 as the rest of the body ; quills brown, glossed with coppery 

 green ; tail rounded, two centre feathers brown, lateral ones 

 blackish green. Length 17| inches. Inhabits the country 

 from Kurrichaine to the Tropic. 



Genus PERDIX, Lin. 



Perdix Swainsonii. Space round eyes, chin, and part of 

 throat, bare and deep red ; neck black brown, feathers 

 edged with white ; interscapulars rusty grey, each with a 

 brown stripe in the course of the shaft ; back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts finely variegated, yellowish white and 

 brown; beneath rusty grey, each feather with a brown 

 stripe in the course of the shaft, and the belly with dashes 

 of deep chesnut; tail light brown,with oblique, waved, dark 

 brown lines. Length 14 inches. Inhabits the banks of 

 Eivers beyond Kurrichaine. 



Perdix Lechoho. Top of head rusty brown, neck mottled 

 black-brown and white ; back and tail pale rusty yellow, 

 tinted with grey, and closely mottled with brown in waved 

 irregular lines, many of the* feathers towards their centres 

 with a dark brown stripe ; beneath irregularly spotted dark 



