2i6 birds. PIC^. 10. Bupliaga. ii. Crotophaga. 
fpot ; ztiing-coveris variegated Xvith black ; qidlLJeatheri 
with white. 
I^ridis. Protuberance abrupt ; body black ; wings greeniib. w 
Gran 
Bill yellowifh, a naked whitifh-bluc fpot at (he bafe of the 
der mandible ; outer tail-feathers, bafe of the qtiiU-Jedtr 
and belly white : kgs blucifli. 
10. BUPHAGA. Bill flrai^ht, fomew|^^*' 
fquarc, mandibles gibbous, entif^', 
more gibbous on the outfide: 1 ^ 4 ^ 
formed for walking. 
Africana. B- _ A/ r lean Beef 
Inhabits near the river Senegal ; 8 Inches long ; picks 
in the backs of cattle for the purpole of getting at the 
of the gad-lly, ji 
Body above grey-brown, beneath and rump yellowlflt 
hardly an inch long, foinetimes yellowifh tipt with red, ■ 
times black; tail wedged; tail-feathers 12, acute, 
brown, the lateral ones within tawny ; legs and tb'' 
black. ' 
Anf. 
Ma-jor, 
n. CROTOPHAGA. .S 27 / comprefled, 
mioval, arched, carinate on the bad^,’ 
upper mandible angular at each edg^' 
nojlrik pervious. 
Blackifli-violet ; feet climbers Leffet' 
Inhabits South America; incites long: gregarious, 
females laying in the fame iiell, each taking care of its ^ 
brood ; eggs fea-green, fpotted Wwards each end : 
fruit, feeds, worms and various infefts, the cattle it i^, 
lying down that it may pick ffom the back the acarus ric'*^ 
with which they are infeHed. , 
Body black: tail long, wedged, of ip feathers; upper 
dible incurvate at the tip : nojirils oval ; tongne llcdiy! ‘ 
tire; legs hUck. 
Elackifh-violet, the feathers, edged with green; quiU'fi 
thers dulky^grcen ; feet clitnbers. Greafer^^^ 
