92 LOXIAD.E. 



Inhabits Africa. Size of C. Capensis : beak black, 

 covered at the base with a reddish membrane, which 

 passes round the eyes as a carunculated skin : irides 

 red-brown : from the nostrils to the eyes a fulvous 

 band : at the hind head a tuft of silky soft feathers : 

 general colour of the upper parts of the body bluish- 

 grey, with a slight fulvous tinge : the chin fulvous 

 white : fore part of the neck and breast light greenish 

 blue, with a fulvous tinge in some lights : breast and 

 belly pale rufous : legs red, claws black : the female 

 is smaller, with a shorter tail and duller plumage. 

 Eggs four or six in number, white, spotted with 

 brown. 



Sp. 6. Co? viridis. Steph. v. x. p. 4. — New Holland. 



Sp. 7. Co. atro-gularis. 



Co. Jronte guldque nigris; dorso, alls, pectore, lateribusgtie vina- 



ceo^fiiscis, iiigricante transversimjasciatis; ahdomine ventreque 



riijescente-fuscis ; pedibiis rnjis. 

 Coly with the forehead and throat black ; the back, wings, breast, 



and sides viuous-brown transversely banded with dusky j the 



abdomen and belly reddish-brown ; the legs rufous. 

 Coliou raye a gorge noire. Le Vaill. Ois. d' Afriq, v. vi. jd. 45. — 



Black-throated Coly, Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. p. 202, 



Inhabits Angola. Length fourteen inches : beak 

 and claws black : beneath yellowish-white : hind head 

 crested, the crest hanging loosely downwards, and of a 

 vinous grey colour : forehead before the eyes, all round 

 the base of the beak, and the throat black : back, 

 wings, breast, and sides light vinous brown, crossed 

 with numerous dusky bars : the rest of the under parts 

 light rufous-brown : beneath the wings dull rufous : 

 ends of the quills brown ; beneath the tail the same : 



