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BIRDS. PASSERES. 78. Ampelis. 
Abave brown, here and there tinged with violet or fteel-- 
blue, beneath reddiflt-white ; tail fteel at the bafe,. 
greenilh towards the tip. Dominican T. 
Inhabits the Philippine IJles ; 6 inches long. 
■fitW and kgs browniCh ; head brownifh-white ; wings long, 
when folded nearly reaching to the tip of the tail. 
Clreenifh-black, flxining with blue or violet ; wings and 
tail black. ■ SongficrT. 
Inhabits the Philippine IJles in numerous flocks ; lings very 
finely, and often lays in pigeori-houl'es. 
Irids red ; feathers of the head and neck long, narrow. 
Shining-green ; front yellow ; chin,, bill and legs black ; 
wtng-coverts and ftreak on the lower mandible blue. 
YelJoiv-f ranted T. 
Inhabits AfizZaiflrr fize of a common finch. 
Irids yeWow •, female, chin azure ; body yellowilh. 
and legs yellowifli ; belly and back fcarlet ; tail, 
wings and thighs brown. Scarlet-bellied T. 
Inhabits Smyrna ; lefs than T. pilaris. 
^■teen, beneath pale yellow ; crefcent on the breaft black. 
^ ^ Ceylon T. 
Inhabits Ceylon : inches long.- 
^ill black ; crown olive-alh ; body above olive-green. 
leinale wants the ocular line and crefcent on the breaft, above 
*nd beneath greenifti-yellow ; tail wedged, lateral feathers 
black tipt with yellow ; kgs blackilh. 
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78. AMPELIS. Bill ftraight, convex, fub- 
ineurved, each mandible notched : 
noJiriU covered with briftles : tongue 
;.fliarp, cartilagenous, bifid: middle- 
toe connefted at the bafe to the out- 
moft. Chatterer. 
Hind-head crefted ; fecondary quill-feathers tipt with red 
to „ iiorny appendages. tV axen C. 
Belly yellowilh. 
Inhabits 
