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AFRICAN TOURACO. 

 (Opsethus Africanus.) 



Op. capite cristato, corpore viridi-ccerulescente, remigibus san- 

 guineis. 



Touraco with a crested head, a greenish-blue body, and red 



quill-feathers. , 

 Cuculus Perra. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. ifl. 17. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.419. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 222. 49. 

 Cuculus guineensis cristatus viridis. Briss. 4. 152. 24. 

 Le Touraco de Guinee. Buff. PL Enl. 601. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 6. 300. 15. 

 Touraco. Lath. Gen. $yn. 2. 545. 46. 



The Touraco is thus described : beak shortish ; 

 the upper mandible bent ; colour reddish-brown ; 

 nostrils covered with short recumbent feathers : 

 irides hazel-brown: eyelids surrounded with red 

 caruncles : eye itself of a fiery colour : the head, 

 throat, neck, upper part of the back, breast, part 

 of the belly and the sides are covered with soft 

 silky feathers of a fine deep green : the upper lesser 

 wing-coyerts the same : the feathers on the crown 

 lengthened into a crest, which the bird can erect 

 at pleasure; the tip of this crest is whitish: on 

 each side of the head is a black stripe, broadest 

 in the middle, arising at the corners of the mouth, 

 and passing through the eyes to the back of the 

 head; above and beneath this is a narrow line 

 of white: the lower part of the back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and greater wing- 

 coverts are blueish-purple : lower part of the belly, 

 sides, thighs, and under tail-coverts, blackish : 



