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VARIEGATED, OR CRESTED PLANTAIN-EATER. 
C/iizarhis variegata, Wagler. 
PLATE XX. 
Crested ; body above cinereous, with brown spots ; beneatli 
white with brown stripes ; head, throat, and breast brown ; 
quill and tail-feathers blackish ; the former with their inner 
half white ; tail immaculate. 
Le Touraco musophage, Le Vaill. Prom, et Grimp, pi. 20 
Phasianus Africanus, Latham, &c Musophaga variegata, 
Vuiillot, &c. — Cliizasrhis variegata, Wagler, specks Avium. 
Western Africa, or rather the intertropical regions 
of that little known continent, appear almost to be 
the peculiar and limited range of the different forms 
of the typical Musop/iagidce or Plantain-eaters.; one 
species alone being found in the territories of the 
Cape. The opinion we at present hold as to their 
place in creation, has been elsewhere enlarged upon. 
They seem to intervene between the kombills and 
the finches ; the passage to the latter being marked 
by the touracos, the colies, and the plant-cutters 
( Phytotoma J, these latter being unquestionably re- 
lated to the finches. 
The present bird certainly belongs to a different 
type to the last, and we accordingly adopt the new 
generic name that has been proposed for it. It 
differs most materially in the form and substance of 
its bill and in the shape and situation of its nostrils, 
although, in all other points of outward structure, 
they are perfectly alike. The bill, although not so 
thick at the base as that of Musophaga, is less 
