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4. TURACUS BUFFONII (Vieill.) 
“ Habitat, Senegambia.” T. buffonii is to be found in every 
large consignment of Senegambian birds, and moreover, seems to 
occur along the whole Guinea Coast. One specimen is to be found 
in the Stockholm Museum, sent from Sierra Leone ; Sundev. 1. c. p. 
159. Dr. Gordon observed and shot this species in the thick forests 
of Cape Coast Castle, where it is very common ; Sir W. Jardine, 
Contribut. to Ornith., 1849, p. 11. Gordon remarks thereon, that 
his specimens had a very clearly defined white stripe under the 
eye. The Verreauxs describe a specimen from Gaboon, and say 
expressly, that it differs in no respect from the Senegal one ; Rev. 
et Mag. de Zool., 1851, p. 358. The Hamburg Museum received 
specimens from Elmina. And lastly, Fraser found this species at 
Fernando Po, and it was from thence that the one figured by Sir 
W. Jardine came. 
5. TURACUS ERYTHROLOPHUS (Vieill.) 
“ Habitat, Congo 1” In regard to the habitat of this species, 
more exact particulars arc to be desired ; nothing authorizes us in 
assuming Congo as its hakitat. Lesson names Senegambia ; and 
Dubois, w T ho figured a specimen which is in the Brussels Museum 
in his Orn. Galerie, pi. 61, says South Africa — both we fear 
without good ground. Bowdich represents C. paulina as certainly 
coming from Sierra Leone, without however describing it ; Excurs. 
to Porto Santo, &c., p. 229. Without doubt it is a West African 
species. 
6. TURACUS GIGAXTEUS (Vieill.) 
“Habitat, Congo?” Only the rather vague conjecture, that 
G. Maxwell’s “ Boolicoco” could mean T. giganteus , appears to in- 
dicate the occurrence of this species in Congo (“ Observat. on the 
Countries of Congo and Loango Edinb. Philosophical Journal, 
vol. vi.). But a more certain locality appears to be the Island of 
Fernando Po, where Fraser and Thomson observed it : “ Expedit. 
Riv. Niger, vol.ii. pp. 221, 504.” This bird frequents the extreme 
tops of the highest and most thickly foliaged trees, and is very 
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