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Inhabits Africa. Size of C. Capensis : beak black, 

 covered at the base with a reddish membrane, which 

 passes round the eyes as a carunculated skin : irides 

 red-brown: from the nostrils to the eyes a fulvous 

 band : at the hind head a tuft of silky soft feathers : 

 general colour of the upper parts of the body bluish- 

 grey, with a slight fulvous tinge : the chin fulvous 

 white : fore part of the neck and breast light greenish 

 blue, with a fulvous tinge in some lights : breast and 

 belly pale rufous : legs red, claws black : the female 

 is smaller, with a shorter tail and duller plumage. 

 Eggs four or six in number, white, spotted with 

 brown. 



Sp. 6. Co? viridis. Steph. v. x. p. 4. — New Holland. 

 Sp. 7. Co. atro-gularis. 



Co. Jronte guldque nigris; dorso, alis, pectore, lateribusque vina- 

 ceo-fusciSi nigricante transversim Jasciatis; ahdomine ventreque 

 rufescente-Juscis ; pedibus rufis. 



Coly with the forehead and throat black j the back, wings, breast, 

 and sides vinous-brown transversely banded with dusky 5 the 

 abdomen and belly reddish-brown j the legs rufous. 



Coliou raye a gorge noire. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. v. vi. pi. 45. — 

 Black-throated Coly. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. p. 202. 



Inhabits Angola. Length fourteen inches : beak 

 and claws black : beneath yellowish-white : hind head 

 crested, the crest hanging loosely downwards, and of a 

 vinous grey colour : forehead before the eyes, all round 

 the base of the beak, and the throat black : back, 

 wings, breast, and sides light vinous brown, crossed 

 with numerous dusky bars : the rest of the under parts 

 light rufous-brown : beneath the wings dull rufous : 

 ends of the quills brown ; beneath the tail the same : 



