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505 
Habitat. Fernando Po. 
Back and upper part of the breast, greenish blue ; head and 
crest, black ; abdomen, yellowish, passing beneath into cinnamon- 
brown ; thighs and vent, cinnamon-brown ; tail blue, with lower 
half black; two outer tail feathers, yellowish in upper half; 
wings and wing covers, rich blue, with metallic tint ; bill yel- 
lowish j legs and feet black. 
Total length, 29^ inches; rostri. If inch; ala), 14 inches; 
caudae, 14^; tarsi, 2^ 
This handsome bird is found in the woods of Fernando Po, 
where it frequents trees of a good height, and with umbrageous 
covering ; in the afternoon and evening its call resembles very 
much, Tuca, Tuca; it is difficult of approach. 
Gorythaix macroryncJia. (Fraser, in Proc. Zook Soc. Lend., 
1837.) 
Cor. rostro pra)gandi aiuuntiaco, ad basin sanguineo; capite, 
crista, collo, pectoreque viridibus; crista ad apicem alba, et pur- 
purea notata; linea alba infra oculos, excurrente; dorso, alisque, 
metallice purpureis; primariis sanguineis nigro marginatis; cauda 
superne metallice viridi; fcnioribus, caudaque subtiis nigris; 
tarsis nigris. 
Long. tot. 14 polk; rostri, l^; aho, G; cauda), 6; tarsi, 1^. 
Habitat. Bimbia and Cameroons, West Africa. 
“ This species differs from the C.persaj in having sharp cutting 
edges to the mandibles; a purple line over the black of crest. 
“ The back and upper surliice of the wings are of a deep 
purple-blue tint, exhibiting in certain parts greenish reflections. 
The primaries (with the exception of the first quill,) and the 
secondaries, (with the exception of the three or four innermost 
quills) are red, margined wdth black ; the shafts of these feathers 
are also black. The outer primary is black, and the two or 
three following feathers are broadly margined externally with 
the same colour. All the wing feathers are black at the base; 
on the outermost feathers the hlack colouring occupies but little 
space, but in each successive feather it increases in extent. The 
feathers of the tail are of a very dark green colour above, inclining 
to black ; beneath they are black, but exhibiting indistinct purple 
reflections. The rump, upper and under tail coverts, thighs, and 
