THE IBIS. 



TENTH SERIES. 



No. I. JANUARY 1913. 



I. — On a rare Species of Touracou (Tuiacus ruspolii). 

 By T. Salvadori, M.D., H.M.B.O.U. 



(Plate I.) 



TURACUS RUSPOLII. 



Turacus sp. Matscliie^ Journ. f. Orii. 1896, p. 94 (descrip- 

 tio falsa). 



Turacus ruspolii Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xvi. p. 44 

 (1896) : Dubois, Syn. Av. i. p. 89, no. 1.241 (1899) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 153, no. 12 (1900) ; Rclinw, Vog. Afr. ii. 

 p. 45, no. 596 (1902) ; Erlang. Journ. f. Oin. 1905, p. 435 ; 

 Dubois, Gen.. Av., Musophagidse, pp. 3, 4, no. 8 (1907). 



Syncipite et lateribus capitis supra oculos griseo-virescen- 

 tibus ; crista compressa albida vix virescente tincta, basi 

 plumarum roseo indiita. postice in parte ima rubra ; 

 genis, coUo, dorso sumino et pectore viridi-olivaceis, 

 genis flavicantioribus ; gula, ut videtur, viridi-grises- 

 cente ; dorso absque cseruleo-cbalybeis ; remigibus 

 primariis rubro-puniceis, cseruleo-chalybeo margiuatis ; 

 abdoraine et subcaudalibus f usco-griseis ; cauda viridi- 

 cbalybea, paullum cseruleo-uitente ; rostro et verrucis 

 palpebralibus rubris; pedibus fuscis. 



Long. tot. 400 mm., al. 180, caud. 200, rostri culm. 24, 

 tarsi 42. 



Tlie very peculiar colouring of the bead of this species 

 makes it very different from all tlie other known species. 

 The crest, which is quite compressed, is greenish-grey in the 



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