ORDER PASSERES. 395 



Lamprotornis Erythraphiis, Tem. PI. Col. t. 267. 



Slate coloured ; band over eyes rigid scarlet ; eye spots 

 and ears black ; wings and tail green , under and upper 

 tail-coverts and edge of quills yellow ; quills crown tipt. 



Some have the tail graduated and one-third longer 

 than the body. 



T. Mneus, PI. Enl. t. 220. Vest- 

 dore, Vail. O. A. t. 87. 



Golden-green, beneath grassy-green ; head blackish ; 

 shining golden rump ; and middle tail feathers purplish ; 

 tail wedge-shaped. Senegal. 



We must evidently unite to these the Merle de la 

 Noiwelle Gidnte, v^ith a tail three times the length of 

 the body, with a double crest on the head, which has 

 been treated as a bird of Paradise (Paradisea gularis. 

 Lath, and Shaw ; Par. nigra, Gml., Vail. Ois. de 

 Par. 20 and 21. Vieil. Ois. de Par. PI. viii.) but solely 

 on account of its singularity, and the incomparable 

 magnificence of its plumage. 



This forms the genus Astrapia of Vieillot, and the 

 first section of Lamprotornis of Temminck. Vieil. Gal. 

 Ois. 1. 107. 



The Chocards, Pyrrho-corax, Cuv., 



Have the compressed, arched, and sloped beak of the 

 Blackbirds, but their nostrils are covered with feathers 

 like those of the crows, to which they have been an- 

 nexed We have one. 



