PLANTAIN-EATER. 345 



One of these, in the collection of General Davies, was seventeen 

 inches in length ; the tail equal to seven. The crest fringed with 

 black; general colour of the plumage glossy olive green, the colours 

 more bright than in birds of this kind in common, and the crimson 

 spot on the wing more brilliant and fiery. This came from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



In Schmid's Abildungen der Vogel,% is an engraving of the 

 Violet, or first Species, in which the bill appears to pass farther 

 backwards on the crown, than in any other figure of it which we 

 have seen ; and we are not informed, whether it has been taken from 

 a real specimen, or from any former drawing of the bird ; and we 

 have further to observe, that the toes are placed three before and one 

 behind, as in that of M. Isert, in the Berlin Transactions. The 

 account given is very short, merely descriptive, as to the colours of 

 the plumage ; and we are sorry to find, that nothing new has been 

 added concerning so rare a bird. 



* P. 56. pi. 44. 



END OF VOL. II, 



Jacob and johnson, printee3 3 

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