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SENEGAL COLY. 

 (Colius senegalensis.) 



Co. mnaceo-grisescens, cauda ccerulesccntCf capite cristato, occU 



pite mridi nitente. 

 Vinaceous-grey Coly, with a blue tail, crested head, and shining 



green occiput. 



Colius senegalensis. GmeL Syst.Nat. 1. 842. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 

 1. 368. 2.^. 



Lanius macrourus. Lin. Syst.Nat. 1. 134. 5. 



Colius senegalensis cristatus. Bris. 3. 30d, 2. t. 16./. 3. 



Coliou huppe du Senegal. Buf, Hist. Nat. Ois.4. 404. t, 18. — 



Buf. PI. Enl. 282./ 2. 

 Senegal Coly. Lath. Gen, Syn. 3. 101. 2. 



Length twelve and a half inches : beak grey, 

 with a black tip : head, neck, and breast, tinged 

 with purplish ; the feathers on the top, and hind 

 parts of the former, green, and formed into a crest: 

 rest of the upper parts pale grey: quills and tail 

 grey brown, the latter inclining to blue : middle 

 tail-feathers above eight inches in length ; outer 

 ones scarcely an inch. Native of Senegal. 



