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FOREIGN BIRDS* 



Still remains a small niche in the temple of fame. 

 For a few whom we here seek permission to name. 

 The rare Plantain-Eater ('*) of beautiful hues, 

 Consisting of purple and violet-blues ; — 

 The Cream-coloured Courser, C^) of Europe the 



guest ;— 

 And the African Fin-foot ; C^) one too of the west ; 



(54) Order, Pic^, (La^/t.) Plantain-Eater. 

 Of the genus Musophaga, (Lath.) or Plan tain -Eater, 

 two species bave been described. One, the Violacea^ov Violet- 

 Plantan-Eater, h a beautiful bird, distinguished by a short, 

 triangular, yellow bill ; tongue entire, stont; toes three before, 

 one behind; length nineteen inches, of which the tail makes 

 more than six; the top of the head purple ; neck, breast, body, 

 and wings, violet ; prime quill feathers purple in the middle. 

 Found in Guinea, and said to live principally on tiie plantain ; 

 it is a very rare bird. 



(55) Order, Grall^, (Lath.) Plover, the Cream-CO' 



LOURED, &c. 



The genus Cursorius, (Lath.) or Courser, consists of 

 four species; they differ chiefly from the genus CharadiiuSf or 

 Plover, in the shape of the bill, which is sharp, bent at the 

 point, and slender. The Eurupaus, or Cream-coloured 

 Plover, is ten inches long, the general plumage cream-colour,, 

 palest beneath; inhabits Europe, though a rare bird; once 

 taken in France. The Asiaticus, or Coromandel- Plover, is 

 the size of the preceding. The head and fore parts, as far as 

 the breast, a reddish-chesnut ; chin white ; back, wings, and 

 tail brown, upper part of the belly dusky, the rest, beneath, 

 rump, and tip of the tail, white ; quills black. Inhabits 

 Coromandel. 



(56) Order, Pin.natipedes,(L'/<A.) Fin-foot, the African,, 



the American. 



The genus Pieropusj or Fin-foot, of Dr. Latham, cor:- 



