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and tipped with yellow, and each feather waved with 

 black : beneath and between the beak and eye yel- 

 lowish-white, tinged with brown, and waved with 

 black : greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail, black, 

 margined with yellow : tail as in C. Le Vaillantii : 

 legs brown. 



Sp. 5. Ce. labrosus. 



Ce. nitide niger, rictu lahroso, ruhro ; cruribus infra genua plu' 

 matis. 



Glossy-black Ceblepyris with the gape margined by a red skin ; 



the legs feathered beyond the knees. 

 Muscipeta labrosa. Svoain. Zool. Illust.pL 179. 



" The whole plumage deep black, glossed with 

 bluish-green in every part except the quill and tail- 

 feathers : the quills inside are grey, margined with 

 olive ; the first of these is very short, the second and 

 third shorter than the fourth, and the two next are 

 nearly of equal length : the tail has ten feathers, 

 and is even, except the two outer pair, which are 

 progressively shorter: the beak rather thick and 

 strong, the culmen not very apparent, the upper 

 mandible strongly notched, the under but slightly : 

 the nostrils are lined by thick-set incumbent feathers, 

 mixed with hairs ; these cover the aperture, which is 

 rather large, round, and encircled by a narrow mem- 

 brane : the legs are very short, the three fore-toes 

 united as far as the first joint, the hind-toe short ; 

 the claws of all are small, and the sole of the foot 

 perfectly flat. Inhabits near the Great Fish River of 

 Southern Africa." I have given the full description of 

 this species, from the work above quoted, as it appears 



