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stiff and arranged on two planes in an acute “angle like a 
roof. “f 
A. cotinga, L.; Le Cordon bleu, Enl. 186 en Of the 
most beautiful ultramarine, with a violet breast, frequently’ tra- 
versed by a large blue band and spotted with pa mere) 
Tersina, Vieill. 
This subgenus consists of Crown-Birds whose beaks are a little 
wider at base.(2) 
Crsieryris, Cuy.(3) 
Has, in addition to the beak of the Crown-Birds, a singular cha- 
racter 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 caterpillars which they collect upon the highest 
trees, but they have nothing of the lustre of the true Crown-Birds. 
Their tail somewhat forked in the middle is sloped on the sides. (4) 
We may also separate from them, 
HH wes). 
, sf ‘Bownverta, Briss. 
The Chatter ers, in which the head is ornamented with a toupet of 
“+ feathers somewhat longer than the rest, possessing moreover another 
hy hi singular character in the secondary quills of the wing, the ends of 
“the stems being enlarged into an oval, smooth, and red disk. There 
ies ‘is one in Europe, named, we know not why, 
eae serrulus, L. Enlt 261. (The Bohemian Chatterer.) Some- 
cb fi what larger than a finch; plumage of a vinous grey; throat black; 
tail black, edged with yellow at the tip; wings black, varie- 
gated 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. Its habitat is thought to be 
the extreme North. The flesh is esteemed a great delicacy. 
(1) Add 2. cayana, Enl. 624.—.4. maynana, Enl. 299.— A. cucullata, t., Col. 363, 
Swains. Zool. Ill. 37.—A. caprea, Merremic. Av., 1, 2, appears to*be a variety of 
the carnifex. ; 
(2) A. tersa, Gm., La Tersine, Buff., Vieill, 119 or Procné tersine, Tem., Col. 5, 
or Procnias hirundinacea, Swains. Zool. ill. TH, 21. 
(3) The Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has since given to this genus 
the name of Campephaga. 
(4) Such are the Muse. cana, Gm., Enl. 541, or the Echenilleur cendré, Vaill. 
Afr., pl. clxii, Vieill., Galer. 130; the Echenilleur noir, Vaill. Ixiv. His Ech. jaune 
is the young of the Turdus phenicopterus, Tem. Col. 71.—Add Cebl. fimbriatus, 
Tem., Col. 249, 250. 
