SENEGAL COLY. 

 (Colius senegalensis.) 



Co. "dnaceo-grisescens, cauda ccerulescente, capite cristato, oca- 



pite riridi nitente. 

 Vinaceous-grey Coly, with a blue tail, crested head, and shining 



green occiput. 

 Colius senegalensis. Gmel. Syst. Xat. 1. 842. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 368. 2. 



Lanius macrourus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 134. 5. 

 Colius senegalensis cristatus. Bris. 3. 300. 2. t. iQ.f. 3. 

 Coliou huppe du Senegal. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 404. t. 18. 



Buff. PI. Enl. 282. f. 2. 

 Senegal Coly. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 101. 2. 



LENGTH twelve and a half inches : beak grey, 

 with a black tip : head, neck, and breast, tinged 

 with purplish ; the feathers on- the top, and hind 

 parts of the former, green, and formed into a crest: 

 rest of the upper parts pale grey: quills and tail 

 grey brown, the latter inclining to blue : middle 

 tail-feathers above eight inches in length ; outer 

 ones scarcely an inch. Native of Senegal. 



