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TUFTED UMURE. 
forming an angle with the groove, and about half 
an inch in length : the under mandible is less 
deep at the base than the uppers grows smaller 
towards the end, where it is slightly truncated, 
and when closed shuts in beneath the upper one. 
The toes have a membrane at their base. 
TUFTED UMBRE. 
(Scopus Umbretta.) 
Sc. cristatus, corpore toto Jiisco^ cauda Jasciis apiceque satura- 
tioribus. 
Crested Umbre, with the whole body fuscous ; the tail with its 
tip and some bands darker. 
Scopus Umbretta. Gmel. Syxt. Nat. 1 . 6lS. — Briss. Orn. 5. 
503. 1 . — Lath.Ind. Orn. 2 . 672 . 1 . 
Ombrette. Ois. 7 . 440. — Buffi PI. Enl. 79 S. 
Tufted Umbre. Brovon. Illii&t. Zool. po. pi. 35. — Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5. 30. pi. 77- 
The Tufted Umbre is the size of a Crow : in 
length twenty inches : the beak is three inches 
and a half long, and brown ; from the hind head 
arises a dense crest of loose feathers, four inches 
in length-, this, as well as the whole body, is of 
an uniform umber-colour, the under parts being 
palest, and the shafts of the neck feathers rather 
lighter in shade : the wings and tail are even ; 
