FAM. MUSOPHAGIDA® 3 
Characters. Bill short, with the culmen elevated and arched to the tip, the sides much 
compressed, and the lateral margins finely serrated; nostrils placed in the middle of the upper 
mandible, large and open, but more or less covered by the recumbent feathers. Plumage partly 
grass-green. 
Geographical Distribution. The species of this genus are confined to Tropical and 
Southern Africa. 
2 T. HARTLAUBI. 
B, Forehead and crown violet : 
3. Crest white. T. LEUCOLOPHUS, 
C. Head or crest with red : 
4. Upper part of head red, crest tipped with white; sides of head and chin white T. ERYTHROLOPHUS. 
5. Forehead green, crest veddish behind ; a large white patch behind the ear-coverts . T. DONALDSONI. 
6. Crest green and ved, this ved colour deepening almost into black, hind crest and nape 
tipped with white; no white patch behind the ear T. FISCHERI. 
7. Crest uniform green, tipped with red T. MERIANI. 
8. Crest greenish-white, the lowest part red or reddish T. RUSPOLH. 
D. No red on the head : 
g. Crest green, tipped with black and with a white subterminal bar T. MACRORHYNCHUS. 
£, Crest uniform green : 
10. With a partially defined black band and a strongly marked white one under the eye. T. PERSA. 
11. With a strongly marked black band and only a slight streak of white under the eve. T. BUFFONT. 
12. With a black streak under the eye and a white streak underneath the black one T. ZENKER. 
F, Crest green, tipped with white : 
a. Bill black : 
13. Back, wings and tail violet . sy ci ep ore RS CHLcrn re 
14. Back and wings brilliant bluish-green with violaceous reflections ; tail dark blue shaded 
with green, and with violaceous reflections afen oni i T. SHARPEL. 
15. Back and wings of a beautiful bronzed green ; tail green strongly shaded with blue 3 T. EMINI. 
16. 
KEY OF THE SPECIES 
A. Upper half of the head blackish-green or steel-blue : 
. Crest blackish-green; a large white spot in front of the eye, behind the ear-coverts a white 
patch extending on each side of the throat. 
. Entive upper half of head stecl-blue, with a white De in front os the eye. 
b. Bill orange : 
Crest more developed that m the preceding, evenly vounded, largely tipped with white 
- LEUCOTIS. 
» CORYTHAIX. 
