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AFRICAN TOURACO. 



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 (Opaethus Africanus.) 



OP. capite cristato, corpore viridi-c&rulescente, remigibus san- 



guineis. 

 Touraco with a crested head, a greenish-blue body, and red 



quill-feathers. 

 Cuculus Perra. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 171. 17. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.419- Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 222. 4p. 

 Cuculus guineensis cristatus viridis. Briss. 4. 152. 24. 

 Le Touraco de Guinee. Buff. PL Enl. 601. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 6. 300. 15. 

 Touraco. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 545. 46. 



THE Touraco is thus described : beak shortish; 

 the upper mandible bent ; colour reddish-brown ; 

 nostrils covered with short recumbent feathers : 

 irides hazel-brown: eyelids surrounded with red 

 caruncles: eye itself of 'a fiery colour: the head, 

 throat, neck, upper part of the back, breast, part 

 of the belly and the sides are covered with soft 

 silky feathers of a fine deep green : the upper lesser 

 wing-coverts the same : the feathers on the crown 

 lengthened into a crest, which the bird can erect 

 at pleasure ; the tip of this crest is whitish : on 

 each side of the head is a black stripe, broadest 

 in the middle, arising at the corners of the mouth, 

 and passing through the eyes to the back of the 

 head; above and beneath this is a narrow line 

 of white: the lower part of the back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and greater wing- 

 coverts are blueish-purple : lower part of the belly, 

 sides, thighs, and under tail-coverts, blackish: 



