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TENUIROSTRES. 
other tail feathers black, with a broad white space 
at the extremity of each of the three outermost ; 
the fourth just tipped with white ; primaries and 
wing coverts bright rufous ; throat, sides of the 
neck, and all the under parts, white ; upper man- 
dible black, edged with yellow at the base ; 
lower mandible yellow, tipped with black ; legs 
black; tarsi long, naked.” * 
TENUIROSTRES. 
Among the Tenuirostres, the fourth great 
tribe of the Incessores, we have only in Britain 
a solitary example, the members of all the 
families belonging chiefly to tropical climates. 
It is here that w r e have arranged the beautiful 
Humming-Birds and Sun-Birds, and the gorge- 
ous Birds of Paradise, also the Honey Suckers of 
New Holland and the Indian Isles with the Pro- 
meripidee, to which our British form belongs, 
constituting the genus Upitpa of Linnaeus, and 
containing only two well authenticated species, 
the one belonging to Europe, and it is said to 
Northern Africa, the other being a bird of Sou- 
thern Africa. 
Upupa, Linn Generic characters. — Bill 
long, slender, compressed, curved, nostrils 
* Jenyn’s Brit. Vertebrate. Description of specimen 
in collection of Zool. Society. 
