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parrot green ; throat and breast the same, but paler ; from the latter 

 barred pale yellow and green; vent plain yellow; forehead, and 

 before the eyes, the chin, and sides pale ash, waved narrowly with 

 dusky ; legs short, blackish, claws hooked ; quills and tail dusky, 

 the feathers edged with green ; the first quill longest ; the wings, 

 when closed, reach half way on the tail. 



Inhabits the Isle of Trinidad : in the collection of Lord Stanley. 

 One of these I formerly met with alive, at the late Mr. Bailey's, 

 dealer in birds, in the Haymarket. This may be allied to the Azure, 

 No. 10, but the size is not mentioned, and the under parts said to 

 be white. 



26.— RED-WINGED CHATTERER. 



Ampelis plicenicea, Ind. Orn. i. 367. 



Tanagra dubia, Red-shouldered Tanager, Nat. Misc. No. 252, 



Red-winged Chatterer, Gen. Syn. Sup. 146. Shaw's Zool. x. 431, 



SIZE of a Lark ; length seven inches and a half. Bill black, 

 notched at the tip ; length to the gape three quarters of an inch, 

 the feathers coming remarkably forward over the nostrils ; general 

 colour of the plumage blue black, with a gloss of polished steel ; 

 lesser wing coverts most beautiful crimson ; the lower order reddish 

 yellow; tail four inches long; legs black, 



Inhabits Africa. 



27.— MURASING CHATTERER. 



LENGTH seven inches and a quarter ; breadth fourteen inches. 

 Bill nearly one inch, very strong, depressed at the base, and slightly 

 incurved ; gape wide ; both mandibles emarginated ; colour pale, 

 with a black point ; tongue lacerated ; nostrils oblong, covered by 

 the feathers of the lore, which are reversed ; irides dark brown ; the 

 plumage above black, tinged with cinereous on the head and neck, 



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