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Another species has of late years been discovered 
in Abyssinia, which we have a slight recollection of 
seeing in the Paris Museum ; it very much resem- 
bled, if our memory serves us right, the one now 
before us, but differed in the colour, See. of the 
bill. 
This second species, the Tanagra erythroryncha of 
Salt’s Travels, seems to be that which has lately 
been republished as new by M. Temminck. 
General colour greyish or smoky brown, which 
spreads over all the upper plumage except the 
rump, and extends to the chin and fore part of the 
throat, — this tint then becomes buff-coloured or 
fulvous-yellow from the breast downwards ; the 
rump and both tail-covers are likewise pale huff. 
The tail is greyish-brown, with the inner webs of 
the lateral tail-feathers more or less rufous ; its form 
is cuneated, the shafts being strong and somewhat 
rigid, and the tips gradually narrowed ; inner wing- 
covers black ; bill with the basal half of a rich 
orange yellow, the terminal portion being scarlet; 
feet brown ; the tail is lighter than the wings, but 
the shafts of the middle feathers are dark brown 
and those of the sides rufous. 
Total length about 9^ inches; hill, from the 
gape, T °o ; ditto, from the front, ^ ; wings, 4 ; 
tail beyond, 2 ; ditto, from the base, 4J ; tarsus, T 9 C . 
We now quit the order of Imessores and enter 
upon that of the Rasores or Gallinaceous Birds, 
the most aberrant family of which are the Pigeons, 
