UMBRE. 23 



GENUS LXXV— UMBRE. 



BlLL strong, thick, compressed, the upper mandible appearing 

 to be composed of several pieces. 



Nostrils linear, and placed obliquely. 



Toes divided, with a slight membrane at the base. 



TUFTED UMBRE— Pl. cxlv. 



Scopus Umbretta, Ind.Orn. ii. 672. Gm.Lin.'i. 618. Bris.v. 503. 7rf.8vo.ii. 343. 



Ombrette, Buf. vii. 440. Pl. ml. 796. 



Tufted Umbre, Gen. Syn. v. 30. pl. 77. Brown, III. 90. pl.35. 



SIZE of a Crow ; length twenty inches. Bill three inches and 

 a half long, compressed laterally; along each side of the uppe 

 mandible is a furrow, running lengthwise, about one-eighth of an 

 inch from the ridge, beginning at the base, and finishing about half 

 an inch before it comes to the point of the bill, where it is somewhat 

 bent downwards : the nostrils are a mere slit at the base, placed at a 

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

 under mandible is less deep at the base than the upper, grows smaller 

 towards the end, is there a little truncated, and when closed, shuts 

 in beneath the upper one ; the colour of both brown ; from the 

 hindhead springs a crest of loose feathers, exceedingly full, and four 

 inches in length ; this, as well as the whole body, is of an uniform 

 brown colour, most like that of the earth called Umber; rather paler 

 beneath, and the neck feathers palest down the shafts ; wings and 

 tail even, the last crossed with three or four bars of deeper brown, 

 and tipped, for about an inch, with the same ; the legs long, and the 

 thighs bare for two-thirds of the length ; the colour of both dusky I 

 between the toes a membrane, about a quarter of an inch deep 



