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strange mistakes about this bird ; he says it is 
the Garndus cyanogaster of Yieillot, a name no- 
where to be found in the latest and most complete 
of his works ; and he takes upon himself to correct 
this author,* who states it is found in Africa, by 
asserting it to be an inhabitant of Java. It might 
have been as well had he stated on what authority 
this rested. It is, however, a false one, since no 
less than three specimens have come to our hands 
direct from Senegal. 
Size rather larger than the Coracias Abyssinica. 
The whole of the head, neck, throat, and breast, is 
enveloped, as it were, in a hood of very light drab 
or fawn colour, glossed with green, which changes 
its tint in different directions of light; the drab 
sometimes assumes a warmer ferruginous tinge, 
while in others it seems changed into a light but 
dull yellowish-green : the front, chin, and eye- 
brows are paler, and almost white : a hlack mantle 
spreads over the interscapulars and the scapular- 
covers : the wings are of the deepest and most 
brilliant mazarine blue, except the basal half of 
the quills, which are of a light beryl or blue-green 
colour : the lower part of the back and upper tail- 
covers are deep blue, so also are the corresponding 
parts on the under plumage ; that is, from the 
breast to the vent : the tail is light sea-green, 
brightest beneath ; its form is decidedly forked ; all 
the feathers are pointed, the two middle ones 
* Habitat in insula Java, et non ut el. Vieillot indisat. in 
Africa. 
