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In the collection of Mr. Salt; met with everywhere in Abyssinia, 

 where there are droves of cattle ; is constantly feeding on their backs, 

 picking out the larvae of the insects imbedded under the skin,* in 

 the manner of the Beef-Eater ; to which it bears great resemblance 

 as to plumage, differing only in the form of the bill, which is clearly 

 that of the Tanager. 



55.— JEW TANAGER. 



LENGTH about eight inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 stout, blue, the tip and all the under mandible black, running to a 

 point; nostrils almost covered with feathers, and placed at the base; 

 plumage of the head, neck, back, and under parts mouse-coloured 

 brown ; wings lead-coloured black, or deep ash ; outer webs of the 

 second, third, and fourth greater quills white from the base to near 

 the end ; under wing coverts white ; the tail consists of 32 feathers, 

 two inches and three quarters long, hollowed out in the middle ; from 

 the second to the fourth white at the ends ; that is, the two middle 

 ones are wholly black, as also the outmost ; the others white at the 

 ends, and those in the middle being longer than the adjoining, gives 

 the appearance of being doubly concave ; the wings long, and when 

 closed, reach a trifle beyond the end of the tail ; legs stout, black ; 

 the claws bent. 



Inhabits New South Wales, known there by the name of Jew 

 Bird ; is perhaps of a doubtful Genus, but seems more allied to that 

 of the Tanager than any other : manners unknown. — In the collec- 

 tion of Lord Stanley. 



In a similar bird in the possession of M. de Fichtel, I observed 

 the length to be eight, and the extent seventeen inches and a quarter. 



* Oestrus Bovis, &c. 

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