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Genus LXIV. UMBRE, 



N° i. Tufted Umbre. 



BILL ftrong, thick, comprefled, the upper mandible ap- 

 pearing to be compofed of feveral pieces. 

 Noftrils linear, and placed obliquely. 

 Toes divided, furnilhed with a flight membrane at the bafe. 



i. 

 TUFTED U. 



Description. 

 Pl. LXXVU. 



L'Ombrette, Brif. Orn. v. p. 503. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 440. 

 ■ > — du Senegal, PI. Enl. 796. 

 The Umbre, Brown, lllufir. p. 90. pi. 35. 



C I Z E of a Crow : length twenty inches. The bill is three 

 inches and a half in length, and comprefled on the fides; 

 along each fide of the upper mandible is a furrow, running 

 lengthwife, about one-eighth of an inch from the ridge, beginning 

 at the bafe, and finifhing about half an inch before it comes to 

 the point of the bill, which is fomewhat bent downwards ; at the 

 bafe of it are the noftrils, which are a mere flit, placed at a {harp 

 angle with the furrow, and about half an inch in length ; the 

 under mandible is lefs deep at the bafe than the upper, grows 

 fmalkr towards the end, is there a little truncated, and when 

 clofed, Ihuts in beneath the upper one j the colour of both 

 brown : from the hind head fprings a creft of loofe feathers* 

 exceeding full, and four inches in length ; this, as well as the 



whole 



