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MUSOPHAGID^ 



TUEACUS 



Turacus albocristatus, StricM. Ann. Nat. Hist, vii, p. 33 (1841). 

 Corythaix albocristatus, Grill, K. Vet. Ahad. Eandl. Stockholm, ii, 



no. 10, p. 45 [Knysna] ; Verreaux, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 40. 

 Musophaga albioristata, SoM. and Wester'm,Toerako'a, p. 18, pi. xi (1866), 

 Turaous persa, {nee Linn.), Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 223 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 



1869, p. 372 ; Holuh Sr Peh. Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 138 (1882). 

 Turacus corythaix, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 440 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, 



p. 119 (1896) ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 168 [Barberton] ; Woodtvard 



Bros. Natal B. p. 121 (1899) ; id. Ibis, 1900, p. 519 [St. Lucia Bay]. 

 "Lourie" of Colonists ; "Igolomi" of Amaxosa (Stanford) ; "Igwala- 



wala" of the Zulus (Woodward), 



Fie. 71. — Turacus corythaix. x -jj. 



Description. Adult male. — Head, neck all round, throat and 

 chest grass-green ; the tips of the long feathers of the crown which 

 form an evenly rounded crest, white ; in front and below the eye a 

 black spot separates a short white eyebrow from another white 

 stripe which runs from below the eye to the ear-coverts ; back 

 greenish-blue becoming steely-blue or green on the wings and tail ; 

 wing-quills including the outer secondaries bright crimson edged 

 and tipped with dusky-black; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 slaty. 



Iris brown, bare skin round the eye red ; bill orange-red ; legs 

 black. 



