Norwich Castle Museum. 7, 
In Africa it obtains the name of Honey Guide, from 
its habit of guiding the natives to trees in which bees 
have formed their nests, hoping to obtain its share of 
the young bees in the comb. 
Case IX. 
The gaudy but rather uninteresting-looking family 
of birds known as Barbets occupy the first shelf of this 
case. Following these is the remarkable family of 
RHAMPHASTIDA or Toucans, consisting of five genera 
and about 59 species; handsome but strange-looking 
birds, with bills apparently out of all proportion to 
their size, in this respect almost vieing with the 
Hornbills ; but unlike the same appendage in the latter 
bird, in the Toucan the bill is as remarkable for its 
lightness as it is for its size. 
' The Plantain-eaters or Turacous (J/usobhaga), are 
handsome birds, restricted to Western Africa. ‘Three 
species are in the collection, Zuracus buffont, a green- 
plumaged bird; Musophaga violacea, in which the 
prevailing tint is violet; and Schizorhis africana, a 
dull-coloured crested bird. Most of these birds 
have beautiful red wing-primaries, but the colour is 
soluble in water, and after a shower the quills become 
pale ; a few days however restores them to their pristine 
briliancy. ‘The Cuckoos, which are represented in 
this country by our well-known summer migrant, 
form a numerous and widely dispersed sub-order, 
absent only from the coldest re¢icns of the earth. 
The Pigeons are too numerous to mention in detail, 
but a pretty white-breasted bird, with pink head from 
the Malay Archipelago, belonging to the genus Prz/opus, 
should be noticed; a beautiful Fruit Pigeon from 
Torres Straits, white with black primaries (Ca7fophaga 
luciuosa), has a very chaste appearance ; a lovely little 
