MUSOPHAGA VARIEGATA. 



terior, one posterior toe, and none of the anterior versatile ; but Illiger, 

 and other ornithologists, hold a contrary opinion, and have classed it with 

 those birds which have scansorial feet. 



The figure is one-half the natural size : the bill is gamboge-yellow, 

 strong, and gently arched, and with a few irregular serratures on both 

 mandibles : the crown of the head, cheeks, throat, and sides of the neck, 

 are chocolate-brown, the feathers rigid, and with bristly points : the oc- 

 ciput is furnished with a crest composed of long narrow feathers, of un- 

 equal lengths, chocolate-brown, margined with white : the upper parts 

 are deep smoke-grey, the side and terminal spots of the feathers choco- 

 late-brown : the under parts are white, with large oblong spots of brown : 

 the quills are black, glossed with purplish-blue : tail long, the exterior 

 feathers black, the two middle black towards their tips, but passing into 

 deep smoke-grey at the base. 



We received the specimen from which the accompanying Plate is taken, 

 along with a valuable collection of skins, from Sierra Leone, where they 

 were collected by the exertions of William Fergusson, Esq. surgeon to 

 the Royal African Corps, and remitted for our collections. 



