IAO BIRDS. 
A. cotinga, L., Le Cordon bleu, Enl. 186 and 188. Of the most 
beautiful ultramarine, with a violet breast, frequently traversed by 
a large blue band and spotted with dark yellow*. 
Tersina, Vieill. 
This subgenus consists of crown-birds whose bills are a little wider at 
their base}. 
CresLepyris{, Cuv. 
Has, in addition to the bill of the crown-birds, a singular character, which 
consists in the somewhat prolonged, stiff, and spiny stems of their rump 
feathers. They are found in India and Africa, where they feed upon ca- 
terpillars which they collect upon the highest trees, but they have nothing 
of the lustre of the true crown birds. ‘heir tail, somewhat forked in the 
middle, is sloped on the sides §. 
We may also separate from them, 
Bompycitia, Briss. 
The Chatterers, in which the head is ornamented with a toupet of fea- 
thers somewhat longer than the rest, possess, moreover, another singu- 
lar character in the secondary quills of the wing,—the ends of the stems 
being enlarged into an oval, smooth, and red disk. There is one in Eu- 
rope named, we know not why, 
A. garrulus, L. En). 261. (The Bohemian Chatterer). Some- 
what larger than a finch; plumage of a vinous grey; throat black; 
tail black, edged with yellow at the tip; wings black, variegated with 
white. This bird visits Europe in flocks, at long intervals, and 
without regularity, from which circumstance, its presence, for a long 
time, was considered as an evil omen. It is very stupid, is easily 
captured and brought up; eats of every thing, and a great quantity. 
It is thought to build its nest in the extreme north. The flesh is 
esteemed a great delicacy. 
There is another species in America, extremely similar, but rather 
smaller, Ampelis garrulus, b, Lin.; Amp. Americana, Wils. I. vii. 1; 
Bombycilla carolinensis, Wils.; Bomb. cedrorum, Vieill., Gal. 118; 
Vaill. Ois. de Par., I. pl. 50. 
_There is also one in Japan, B. pheenicoptera, Tem.; Col. 450, 
which has no appendages to the wings, and the tips of whose tail and 
little wing-coverts are red. 
* Add A. cayana, Enl. 624.-—4. maynana, Enl. 299.+A. cucullata, t., Col. 368, 
Swains. Zool. Ill. 837.—A. caprea, Merremic, Av., 1, 2, appears to be a variety of the 
carnifex. 
+ 4. tersa,Gm., La Tersine, Buff., Vieill. 119, or Proené tersine, Tem. Col. 5, or 
-Procnias hirundinacea, Swains. Zool. Il. 21. 
{ The Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has since given to this genus 
the name of Campephaga. 
§ Such are the Musc. cana, Gm., Enl. 541, or the Echenilleur cendré, Vaill. Afr., 
pl. clxii. Vieill., Galer. 130; the Echenilleur noir, Vaill. lxiv. His Ech. jaune pl. 1xiit. 
is the young of the Turdus pheenicopterus, Tem., Col. 71.—Add Cebl. fimbriatus, Tem., 
Col. 249, 250. 
