636 TUFTED UMBRE. 



forming an angle with the groove, and about half 

 an inch in length: the under mandible is less 

 deep at the base than the upper; grows smaller 

 towards the end, where it is slightly truncated, 

 and when closed shuts in beneath the upper one. 

 The toes have a membrane at their base. 



TUFTED UiMBRE. 



(Scopus Umbretta.) 



Sc. cristatuSy corpore toto fuscoy cauda fasciis apiceque satura- 

 Uoribus. 



Crested Umbre, with the whole body fuscous 5 the tail with its 



tip and some bands darker. 

 Scopus Umbretta. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 6 18. — Briss, Orn. 5. 



503. 1. — Lath.Ind, Orn. 2. 672. 1. 

 Ombrette. Buff, Ois. 7. 440.— Buff. PI. Enl. jgQ. 

 Tufted Umbre. Brotvn. Illust. Zool. OO. pL 35. — Lath. Gen, 



Sj/n, 5. 30. pi. 77' 



The Tufted Umbre is the size of a Crow : in 

 i-ength twenty inches : the beak is three inches 

 and a half long, and brown : from the hind head 

 arises a dense crest of loose feathers, four inches 

 in length; this, as well as the whole body, is of 

 an uniform umber-colour, the under parts being 

 palest, and the shafts of the neck feathers rather 

 lighter in shade : the wings and tail aTC €V^n ; 



