230 CRIMSON -CRESTED TOTTRAGO. ' 
green, inclining to blueish on the body and belly 
the greater and lesser quills are of that peculiar rich 
lilac or purple-red so prevalent in this genus ; the 
feet are greyish-black, and the tail is rounded. 
It appears that the figures given by Yieillot and 
Temminck were both taken from the same indivi- 
dual, yet in the first the crest is conspicuously edged 
with white, a character entirely omitted by the 
second ; which of these is correct, we have no means 
of ascertaining. 
Having now enumerated all those birds belonging 
to the typical or Conirostral tribe of the Perchers, 
which we can personally vouch to be natives of 
'Western Africa, we shall at once proceed to the 
sub-typical or Dentirostral tribe, which, as most of 
our readers already know, represents the rapacious 
order ; many of the species living upon small birds, 
and all upon some part of the animal creation. 
