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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
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The Coly, or Mouse-bird, has a long narrow tail. The legs 
are red and the toes have narrow claws directed 
forward, but the hallux and outer toe can be directed 
backwards. When a coly alights on the branch of a 
tree, it creeps along it like a mouse, with the whole 
of the metatarsus applied to the branch. 
forests and is by no means sliy, for it frequents trees 
around houses in Kampala. 
