BROAD-TAILED BABBLER. 
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chief specific distinction, however, is the dusky 
white margin of the feathers on the head, neck, 
and throat, which from their semicircular form have 
a very peculiar and distinct appearance. 
Total length, 9 j; hill from the gape, 1^ ; wings, 
4 t 2 b ; tarsus, 1 T % ; hind toe and claw, T s 5 ; middle 
ditto, l jfj ; tail from the base, 4^, 
BLACK-CROWNED BABBLER. 
Craieropus reinwardii, Swains. 
Above grey ; beneath paler ; wings and tail brown, with shades 
of transverse darker lines ; head and ears black ; chin pure 
white ; throat with dusky spots. 
Crateropus Reinwardii, Zool. Illust. ii. pi. 80. 
When we first described and figured this bird in 
the second series of the Zoological Illustrations, we 
gave it as a native of India upon the information 
of the Parisian collectors. Whither this halitai 
may be correct or not we cannot determine, hut it 
is certain that the two specimens we have recently 
received from Senegal are perfectly the same as that 
we formerly described. 
This species, readily distinguished by the deep 
black covering of its head and ears, is altogether a 
larger bird than the Crateropus platycircus ; the 
tail is longer, but the feathers are narrower; and; 
