200 COLY. 



Inhabits Africa, brought from Sierra Leone : in the collection of 

 Mr. H. Brogden. It seems to stand between the Senegal and the 

 Quiriwa, differing from both in the formation of the legs, unless this 

 circumstance had been overlooked in their descriptions. 



6— INDIAN COLY. 



Colius Indicus, Ind. Om. i. 370. Daud. ii. 364. 

 Indian Coly, Gen. Syn. Sup. 147. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 3. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill black, base of both mandibles 

 dull red ; lore, and space round the eye, the same ; crown, and neck 

 behind pale cinereous grey ; forehead and chin yellow ; sides, front 

 of the neck, and all beneath, pale rufous, paler at the vent ; back, 

 wings, and tail cinereous lead-colour, the last greatly cuneiform as 

 in the others, and seven inches long ; legs red, claws black. 



Inhabits India. — One in the collection of the late Mr. Thompson 

 was thirteen inches long, and twelve in breadth ; tail eight inches. 

 Notwithstanding the four last are described as different, we are not 

 without suspicion, that they may belong to one and the same species, 

 and that the difference may arise from sex or immaturity. 



7— STRIATED COLY. 



LENGTH twelve inches or more. Bill stout, the upper man- 

 dible black, the under yellow ; head crested ; head, neck, breast, 

 back, wings, and tail pale brown, inclining to greenish grey ; the 

 neck, breast, part of the wing coverts, and beginning of the back, 

 marked with numerous transverse darker striae, not very conspicuous 

 at a distance; beneath from the breast tawny buff; inner webs of the 

 quills, halfway from the base, tawny, seen mostly beneath, and the 

 shafts of the feathers are there pale ; the tail exceedingly cuneiform, 



