DETAILED CHARACTERS OF 
7. TURACUS ERYTHROLOPHUS, Vieillot. 
Habitat, Congo? West Africa. Forehead, a stripe along the 
hinder part of the sides of the throat, fine carmine red ; the tips of 
the rounded crest on the crown, white ; region between bill and eye, 
beneath the eye as far as the ear and gorge, white ; throat, breast, 
and upper body, grass green ; back, wing-bends and wing-coverts, 
dark grass green, with peacock-tail lustre. Figured, Temminck, 
Planches Color, pi. 23. 
TURACUS, Cuvier. — 2d Subdivision. 
Nostrils placed in the middle of the bill, whose basal feathers 
are not directed forwards. 
8. TURACUS PORPHYREOLOPHUS, Vigors. 
Habitat, South-east Africa (Port Natal). Synon. Gallicrax 
anais , Lesson. 
Forehead and region around the eye, dark green, with peacock- 
tail lustre ; the rounded crest of the head and stripe along the nape, 
blue black, with steel blue gloss ; gorge, throat, breast, upper belly, 
upper back and coverts on the wing-bends, reddish-green ; middle 
back, and remaining wing-coverts, greenish-blue. Figured, Smith, 
South African Zoology, pi. 35. — (Jard. and Selby, Must. Orn. 
N. S. pi. 46). 
9. TURACUS GIGANTEUS, Vieillot. 
Habitat, Congo ? Forehead, region around eye, throat, breast, 
back, wings, and upper two-thirds of tail, blue green ; on the head 
a rounded crest of bluish-black ; belly, and middle part of the two 
outer tail-feathers on each side, dirty greenish-yellow ; the remain- 
ing third of all the tail-feathers black, with greenish-blue tips ; 
thigh and rump, rust red. Figured, Le Vaillant, Promcrop. part 
iii. pi. 19. 
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