AN ANIMAL PIGMENT CONTAINING COPPER. 
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S. Cape Colony and north to the Orange Paver. 
S.E. Natal, Transvaal, Zambesi, with the Shire tributary, and north to 15° S. lat, 
E. The coast from Mozambique (15° S. lat.) to 5 C N. lat., and inland to 35-° E. long. 
C. The Central or Lakes sub-region, comprising Victoria Nyanza, Albert Nyanza, 
south-east portion of Niam-Niam country, and extending south to Ta.njan- 
yika Lake. 
N.E. The northern half of Niam-Niam, the whole Nile district from the Albert 
Nyanza, east through Gala land and Somali, and north to the mouths of the 
Nile. 
The countries north of the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean coast belong, not to 
the Ethiopic, but to the European region. 
It must be noted that our acquaintance with the African avi-fauna is too imperfect 
to admit of the construction of a distribution-chart of the Musophagidse which shall 
be exhaustive and final. 
Table Showing Distribution of the Touracos in West, South-West, South, South- 
East, East, Central, and North-East Africa. 
Genera and species. 
1 
Turacus leucotis (Rupp.) . 
2 
T. persa (L.). 
3 
T. b-uffoni (V.). 
4 
T. schaloici (Reichen.) . 
5 
T. livingstoni (Gray) . . 
6 
T. reiclienowi (Fischer) . 
7 
T. corythaix (Wagl.). 
8 
T. schuetti (Cab.) . 
9 
T. macroi'hynchus (Fraser) . 
10 
T. meriani (Rupp.) . 
11 
T. fischeri (Reichen.) . 
12 
T. erythroLophus (V.). 
13 
T. leucolophus (Hengl.) . 
14 
T. hartlaubi (Fischer and Reichen.) . . 
15 
Gallirex porphyreolophus (ViG.) .... 
16 
G. chlorochlamys (Shelley) . 
17 
Musophciga violacea (Isert.) . 
18 
M. rossae (Gould) . 
19 
Corythceola cristata (V.) ....... 
20 
Schizorhis africann (Lath.) . 
21 
8. zonura (Rupp.) . 
22 
S. leucogaster (Rupp.) . 
23 
8. concolor (Smith) . 
24 
Gymnoschizorhis personata (Rupp.) . 
25 
G. leopoldi (Shelley) . 
25 
w. 
10 
s.w. 
s. 
S.E. 
E. 
C. 
N.E. 
Note.- —The 18 species above the dotted line constitute 3 genera, and may be considered to contain 
turacin, which is certainly absent from the remaining 7 species of tlie family. 
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