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Genus XXXIII. COLY. 
INGte (Eape C: N° 4. Radiated C, 
2. Senegal C. 5. Panayan C. 
3. White-backed C. 
ILL convex above, ftrait beneath, fhort, and thick; the 
upper mandible curved downwards. 
Noftrils fmall, placed at the bafe, and almoft hid by ie 
feathers. 
Tongue not the length of the bill, laciniated at the end. 
Toes divided to the origin. ws 
Of this race of Birds Linnaeus knew but two; one of which he 
placed with his Shrikes, the other with the Grofbeaks, contrary to 
the fentiments of Briffon, who had put them in a genus by them- 
felves. Mr. Pennant has judicioufly united them again into one, 
and we here think right to follow his example’; as, ‘on inveftiga- 
‘tion, there is not a doubt of not only thofe, but all the following, 
being of one and the fame genus. © 
Loxia Colius, Liz. Sy. i. p. 301. N° 12 *. i 
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CAPE Ce - Le Coliou du Cap’de Bonne Efperance, Bri/a ora. ii. p. 30 pl. 16. f. 2. 
ty —Buf. cif. iv. pe 404.—Pl. enl. 282. £16, 
Lev. Mu. 
DescRIPTION. SIZE of a Chaffinch: length ten inches and a quarter. Bill 
grey, with a dufky black tip: the head and neck are vina- 
‘| ‘ceous 
* So far as Linneus gives us a fpecific’ diftin@ion of {pecies, the fynonym 
is rights but in the end he defcribes fome other bird by miftake ; which he fays 
is 
