CUCULJDiE. 



223 



is fine orange ; the eye large, reddish, and surrounded 

 by a red circle : the legs are dusky-grey. M. Vieil- 

 lot, who possessed one of this species alive, says that 

 its manners are as mild and familiar as those of the 

 common species : it lived on succulent fruits, in de- 

 fect of which it ate sugar : it was very active, and its 

 voice was sonorous and apparently ventriloqual. 



GENUS CCLXI.— MUSOPHAGA, Isert. 

 PLANTAIN-EATER. 



Rostrum nudum, basi la- 

 tum, crassum, versus 

 apicem valde compressum, 

 supra carinatum, apice 

 inclinato: mandibula su- 

 perior plerumque basi 

 supr^ fontem elevata ; 

 maxillcB dentatae. 



Naves in medio rostri sitae. 



Digiti antici basi membrana 

 coaliti ; exteriores versa- 

 tiles. 



Beak naked, broad at the 

 base, thick, greatly com- 

 pressed at the tip, cari- 

 nated above, the tip in- 

 clined : the upper man- 

 dible generally elevated at 

 the base above the fore- 

 head ; the lower dentated. 



Nostrils placed in the middle 

 of the beak. 



Anterior toes united at the 

 base by a membrane ; the 

 external versatile. 



A. Mandibula superiore supra frontem continuatd. 



A. With the upper mandible continued over the forehead. 



Sp. ]. Mu. violacea. Shaw, v. viii. p. 47. pi. 4. 5. — Africa. 



B. Mandibula superiore Jronte non tegente. 



A. With the upper mandible not covering the forehead. 



Sp. 2. Mu. cristata. Vieillot, Analyse, 8^c. p. 68. (C.) 



Mu ? griseo-fusca, ventre albido strigisfuscis. 



Grey-brown Plantain-eater ? with the belly whitish striped with 



brown. 

 Phasianus Africanus. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. i. 210. 



