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The TouRACos Corythaix,* ox Plantain-eater, (lUig.) 



Whose bill does not mount up on the forehead, and 

 whose head is furnished with a moveable crest. 



Tmiraco Plantain-eater, Cuculus Persa. Lin. Enl. 

 601. Vaill. Prom. 16 and I7. Edw, t, 7- 



This bird inhabits the environs of the Cape ; is of 

 a bright green, with part of the quills of the wings 

 crimson. It builds in holes in trees, and feeds on 

 fruit.t 



Touraco Geant. Vaill. 

 Prom. pi. 19. Musophaga Gigantea. Viel. 

 Cheeks and above, generally shining blue ; quills, 

 black at the extremity ; crest, large and black. 



Pauline Plantain-eater. T. Paulina. Tem. Col. 

 23, or OpcBthus Erythrolophus. Vieill. Gal. 49- 



Green ; crest, red ; cheeks, white. South Africa. 



Varied Plantain-eater. T. Brun Phasianus Africa- 

 nus. Lath. Vaill. 20, or Musophaga Variegata, Vieill. 

 Gal. 48. 



Ashy-blue, above ; white, underneath ; quills of tail, 

 black, except the two middle, which are brown ; crest, 

 long, brown, edged with white.]: 



* M. Viellot has changed this name to Op^thus; and Wagler has 

 divided them into two genera, under the names of Cheyarhis and Spelectos. 



-f- The OpcEthus Buffonia, Vieil. C. Africanus Shaw. Vail. t. 17, and 

 Edw. t. 7. 



X The genus PUmus of Wagler, the Cuculus regius of Shaw, Mus. Lever, 

 t. 40 bad. 



