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SPECTACLE TODY. 
Platystcra lobata, Swains. 
PLATE XXII. 
Male. — Above glossy blue-black, with an angulated stripe of 
white on the wings ; beneath white, with a black bar upon 
the breast ; lobe of the eye red. 
Female . — Above cinereous ; chin white ; throat chestnut. 
Mus. melanoptcra, Gmelin Platystera eollaris et Desmaresti, 
Jardine and Selby , lU'. of Om. i. Pi. 9 Platys. lobata, Sw. 
West Afr. ii. p. 49. 
Having already, in a former volume of this work, 
fully described those two birds, which we consider 
are the sexes of our P. lobata, it is scarcely neces- 
sary to repeat the same in this. It seems to be by 
no means uncommon in Western Africa, but does 
not extend to the southern part of that continent, at 
.east it is not among the other species of this genus 
figured by Le Vaillant. The feet are syndactyle. 
The annexed figure represents what we consider 
as the female, a red or rufous breast being the dis- 
tinguishing mark of this sex in .the two species 
figured by Le Vaillant. See his Ois. d’ Afr. vol. iv. 
pi. 160, 161. 
Total length about 4^ inches ; bill from the gape, 
; from the front, T 7 5 ; wings, 2g ; tail from the 
base, 2. 
We shall now offer some additional remarks upon 
