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the wing, when closed, reaches some way on the tail ; legs stout, 

 brown ; toes three before and one behind, the inner toe joined to the 

 middle one as far as the first joint, and to the outer one rather lower. 

 Said to inhabit some part of Africa. 



2.— TOURACO PLANTAIN-EATER. 



Cuculus Persa, Ind. Orn. i. 222. Lin. i. 171. Gm. Lin. i. 419. Scop. AnnA. No. 49. 



Bor. Nat. ii. 130. t. 15. B. 

 Cuculus Guineensis cristatus viridis, Bris. iv. 152. Id. Svo. ii. 84. 

 — — — ex Africa, sive Cuculus Rex, Gerin. t. 73. 

 Opcethus Africanus, African Touraco, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 63. pi. 15. 

 Crown Bird from Mexico, Albin. ii. pi. 19. 

 Touraco Cuckow, Gen. Syn.W. 545. Id. Sup. ii. 136. Klein, p. 36. Edio. pi. 7. 



NEARLY the size of a Magpie ; length seventeen inches and a 

 half. Bill shortish, the upper mandible bent, reddish brown ; the 

 nostrils concealed with feathers ; irides hazel brown ; eyelids sur- 

 rounded with red caruncles ; the head, neck, and upper parts, the 

 breast, part of the belly, and the sides covered with soft, silky, fine 

 green feathers ; lesser wing coverts the same; the feathers on the 

 crown lengthened into a crest, to be erected at will ; the tip of this 

 crest reddish ; on each side of the head a black stripe, broadest in 

 the middle, arising at the corners of the mouth, passing through the 

 eyes to the hindhead ; above and beneath this is a narrow white line ; 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, scapulars, and 

 greater wing coverts, bluish purple ; lower part of the belly, sides, 

 thighs, and under tail coverts, blackish ; greater quills crimson, with 

 the outer edges and tips margined with black ; tail bluish purple, 

 six inches and a half long, and nearly even at the end ; the leg's are 

 cinereous. 



Inhabits various parts of Africa. M. Levaillant observes, that 

 numbers are in the country of Hottniqua, to the east of the Cape of 



