DETAILED CHARACTERS OF 
TURACUS, Cuvier. — 1st Subdivision. 
Nostrils near the base of the bill, partly covered by feathers 
directed forwards. 
1. TURACUS PERSA, Linn, nec Gmelin. 
Habitat, Guinea. Head and the compressed feathers of the crest, 
throat, breast, upper half of the belly, wings, and back, beautiful 
grass green ; hinder half of the wings dark steel blue ; wing-feathers 
carmine red, with greenish-black edges. From the corner of the 
mouth, extending under the eye, a black stripe ; above the same, 
as far as the half of the orbit, a white stripe ; beneath also a white 
stripe, which begins from the ear, and extends almost to the corner 
of the mouth. Figured, Edwards’s Natural History of Birds, pb 7. 
2. TURACUS MERIANI, Ruppell. 
Habitat unknown. Head and the compressed feathers of the 
quadrant-shaped crest, throat, breast, and upper half of the belly, 
beautiful grass green ; wings and upper back steel blue, with a 
purple gloss ; wing-feathers as in the foregoing species ; the tips ot 
the crest-feathers dark carmine red. From the corner of the mouth, , 
extending under the eye, a black stripe ; only beneath the same is a 
white stripe, beginning at the ear and extending towards the corner 
of the mouth. A figure of this bird is not known to me. 
3. TURACUS CORYTHAIX, Wagler. 
Habitat, South-west Africa (Cape Colony). Synon. Turacus 
albocristatus , Strickland. Corythaix , Lesson. 
Head, compressed feathers of quadrant- shaped crest, breast, 
throat, upper belly and wing-bend, beautiful dark grass green, 
the points of the crest-feathers white ; a black spot between the 
corner of the mouth and eye, surrounded above and below with » 
white stripe, the latter of which extends to the ear. Figured, 0 
Ya.il 1 ant, Promerop. part iii. pi. 16. 
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