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which gradually changes to yellow on the nape ; 
there is also a slight tinge of the same rufous colour 
in the middle of the throat, as far as the breast. 
The wing-covers and tertials are blackish-brown, 
broadly edged with yellow ; the quills brown, with 
very narrow edgings of the same ; tail very short, 
slightly rounded, and light olive-yellow like the 
back ; bill black ; legs pale ; second quill a quarter 
of an inch shorter than the third. 
Total length nearly 5 inches ; bill, gape, ; 
wings, 2^ ; tail beyond, ^ ; base nearly 2 ; tarsus, 
| ; middle toe and claw, T ^y ; hind ditto, xn 1 inner 
toe rather shorter than the outer. 
FINIS 
■V. D . — By some unaccountable oversight, the artist who 
designed the Vignette of the first volume, has represented 
the Corythaix Persa instead of the Corythaix Senegalensis , the 
head of which, as drawn by Mr. Swainson, is given at 
Plate XXI. 
EDINBURGH : 
FRINTED BY W. H. LIZARS. 
