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black, coming forwards on each side, and forming a narrow collar 

 just above the breast; except this all the under parts from chin to 

 vent are white ; back and wings dusky black, the feathers fringed 

 with white at the tips ; above the eye a bare, oval, carunculated, 

 crimson spot, the size of a pea ; legs pale brown. 



One, supposed to diiFer in sex, had the upper parts, wings and 

 tail more or less deep grey, with an oblique long band of white from 

 the shoulders to the ends of the second quills ; chin, just under the 

 bill, white, from thence to the breast ferruginous red, bounded below 

 with a narrow dusky band ; the rest of the under parts white, but 

 the thighs mottled with ash-colour; tail as in the other, also the bill ; 

 but the bare crimson space above the eye smaller, and in the shape 

 of a crescent. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



17.— RUFOUS TODY. 



BILL broad, with hairs at the base ; feathers of the crown 

 elevated into a high crest; general colour of the plumage and begin- 

 ning of the sides of the breast rufous ; tail rounded, long, rufous. 



Inhabits Africa. — In the collection of Mr. Leadbeater. 



18— AFRICAN TODY. 



LENGTH near six inches. Bill half an inch long, black, very 

 broad at the base, and depressed ; point curved, at the gape several 

 hairs, pointing forward ; head, neck, back, wings, and tail fine pale 

 blue-grey; breast, and under parts very pale ash-colour; quills dusky 

 within, the outer webs pale bluish ash-colour ; tail greatly cuneiform. 



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