254 Birds of (iamhia. 
A young hen which was reared in the aviary last year 
built a nest and laid four eggs, l)iit as she had no mate the 
eggs were taken away from her. 
To be continued. 
Birds of Gambia. 
By E. HOPKINSON, D. S. ()., M. A., M. D. 
(continued from page 217.) 
MUSOPHAGID^. 
Tnracus persa. SENEGAL TURACO. 
Bange. West Africa, Senegarabia to Congo. (H.L.) 
T. huffoni. BUFFON'S TURACO. 
Range. West Africa, Congo to Senegal. (ILL.) 
T. maerorhynchuff. GREAT-BILLED TURACO. 
Range. West Africa, Senegambia to Gaboon. (H.L.) 
These three species of Green Turaco should all (from the 
ranges given above) be found in Gambia, but although 1 may have 
seen all three without recognising them, the only two specimens 
I have ever handled were certainly T. huffoni. Every detail of 
their general plumage and the arrangement of the facial marks 
exactly agreed with the following description, which is taken from 
the British Museum Catalogue. 
T. huffoni. Head (which is crested) and neck grass-green; 
back, wings and tail glossy violet; quills with the exception of 
the outer one bright crimson, with edges and shafts black; bare 
ocular patch scarlet with a band of white feathers in front of 
the eye but not below it, where a strongly marked l)and of black 
crosses the face with perhaps a few white featheis at its lower edge; 
throat and centre of chest grass-green like the neck, rest of body 
and under tail-coveits violet shaded with black; under surface of 
qmlls like the upper surface; under wing-coverts dark brown jjartially 
washed with green. Bill deep olive inclining to yellow at edges; 
(in one of my specimens the olive was washed with dull crimson). 
Iris hazel; legs black. Length 16 inches. Sexes alike. 
T . persa closely resembles T. huffo)ii, the oidy diflercnce being 
that in tius species the white eyebaiid is more marked and extends 
from the pre-ocular region to form a white band beloiu the eye as 
well, where a badly defined narrow black streak partly divides 
the white into two parts. 
T . inacrorhynchus is a rather larger bird (17.5 inches), the 
general colour is green with mantle and back violet; quills crimson 
and black. The head and crest are green mottled, each feather 
bein?;- tipped with black and having a sub -terminal white bar. Bill 
yellow pai'tially shaded with orange; legs black; iris brown. 
