TENUIROSTRES. 



Inhabits Africa. Length nineteen inches : beak 

 yellow : head crested, each feather brown in the 

 middle and white on the sides : the top of the head 

 is blackish : back bluish-ash, each feather dashed 

 with a blackish stripe down the shaft : chin and fore- 

 part of the neck rusty-brown : sides of the neck 

 whitish, a little mottled with dark-brown : breast 

 and belly white, dashed down the shafts with black : 

 wings bluish-a^h, shafts and tip blackish : spurious 

 wing black : the eight first quills are white on the 

 inner web half way from the base ; the two next 

 white at the base, the rest of their length, and all the 

 remainder of the feathers, lead- coloured brown : the 

 tail is upwards of nine inches in length, and is rounded 

 at the end ; its two middle feathers are brown, with 

 the ends black ; the others are entirely black : legs 

 black. The male has the upper parts of the body, 

 the wings, throat and neck pale-blue : the coverts 

 black ; the breast and belly yellow-green : the thighs 

 and under tail-coverts red : the two middle tail- 

 feathers blue, the lateral ones black at the base, 

 yellow in the middle, and bluish-black towards the 

 tip : the beak orange : legs black : tail very long, 

 broad : wings short ; and is in length about twenty- 

 five inches. 



TRIBE v.— TENUIROSTRES. 



Rostrum gracile, elongatum, gradatim arcuatum aut rectum, in- 

 tegrum : cor-pus gracile ; pedes debiles gracillimi : lingua ^lir- 

 mentosa, tubulosa. 



Beak slender, elongated, gradually bent, or straight, intire: body 

 slender : legs weak, very slight : tongue filamentous, tubular. 



