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Long-beaked Bogle. F. hamatus Illiger pl. col. 61. 231 Jun. Lead-coloured quills black; base of tail and lower tail coverts white. To this sub-genus may be added as a section the Asturina of Vieillot peculiar for its lunate nostrils short slender tarsi and long claws. Ashy Falcon. Asturina cinerea Vieil. Gal. t. 20. Ashy-blue beneath white striped; tail with two black bands and white tips. Guiana. Length fifteen inches. F. fuscus Lath. Miller Illust. t. 13. is perhaps of this section. The

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beneath darker; wing-covert paler edged. Thamnophilus Caudautus Vieillot. Greenish-brown; tail-feathers blackish-brown acute; bill above fuscous base beneath white; length seven and a half inches. America. Thamnophilus Choloropterus. Vieill. Above brownish rufous; beneath banded black and rufous; smaller wing-coverts pale rufous; quill outer green inner brown; tail black white and gray-banded; feet blue; length 8 inches. Guiana. Turdus Alaspi. Lath. Pl. Enl. 701. 2. Olive-brown throat and chest

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the wing covere snowy white; length seven inches. Brazil. Black Ant-Thrush Drymophila Atra Swain. Black base and edge of the interscapular feathers white; length seven inches. Drymophila Variegata Vigors. Zool. Jour. I.559. Above olive-brown; head black white-striped; eyebrows white; wings and tail-feathers black white-tipt; breast belly and rump red; length five inches. Drymophila Velata Temm. Pl. Col. 334 Blue-black; face cheeks and forehead black; throat chestnut; length seven inches. Timor

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inhabit New Holland and the adjacent isles. Their habits are noisy and voices shrill. They pursue small birds. * * Bill with a distinct ridge which extends up the forehead; wings rounded. The sixth feather the largest. Paradisea Viridis Gm. P. Chalybea Lath. Pl. Enl. t. 634. Vail. O. A. t. Blue-green; head silky-black; woolly; back rump belly and tail shining steel black. New Guinea Papua. * * Bill without any ridge surface nearly flat. Wing moderate. Fourth or fifth quill longest. Barita

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Green Tanager Lath. Tanagra Virens Lin. Above green beneath yellowish; lores cheeks and throat black; bill dull black; feet brown. Brazil. Tanagra Chlorocyanea Vieil. Olive green throat neck and middle of belly blue; bill and feet brown. South America. Tanagra Graminea Spix Braz. t. 53. 2. Green beneath pale yellow; quills and tail black; crown green-edged; bill finch-like; throat yellow-green; feet yellowish; body four and three quarters; tail two inches long. Brazils. Schrauk's Tanager

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white; crop bill and feet black. Java. Muscicapa Cyanomelas Vieil. Vail. O. A. t. 151. Head shining blue-black; body above bluish ash beneath bluish white varied with gray; wing-spot white. South Africa. Muscicapa Scita Vieil. Vail. O. A. t. 154. Eye-streak black; middle of the throat and chest reddish; tail black and white. India. Muscicapa Pristrinaria Vieil. Vail. O. A. t. 160. Ferrugineous brown varied with olive; eye-streak throat and bands on chest black; crop and belly white. South Africa

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-edged with two bands of yellow spots; secondaries not tipt Muscicapa C sia Pr. Max. Pl. Col. t. 27. Muscicapa Diops Temm. Pl. Col. t. 144. f. 1. Ash beneath paler; spot before each eye white. Muscicapa Eximia Temm. Pl. Col. t.144. f. 2. Blueish ash; beneath yellowish; nape ear quills and tail black; latter pale-edged; side of face and over eye white. Muscicapa Gularis Natter. Pl. Col. t. 167. f. 1. Blue green; beneath blueish-white; side of face and of throat reddish; two wing-bands yellow. [page

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Black and Scarlet Thrush T. Speciosus Lath. Black; belly loins middle wing-coverts edges of quill and tail-feathers scarlet. India. Muscicapa Stellata Vieil. Gobemouche Etoil Vail. t. 157. f. 2. Olive-green; beneath yellow; head and throat bluish-gray; collar white; a black star above the eyes. Africa. Collared Platyrhynchus Platyrhynchus Collaris Jardine Ilust. Orn. 1. t. 9. f. 1. Above shining blue-black; beneath white; pectoral band black; eyes caruncled; length five inches and a quarter

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tail dusky-blue; middle of back head front of neck and beneath black. The BLACKBIRDS MERLES (TURDUS Lin.) have the beak compressed and bent but the point does not make a hook and its notches do not produce a denticulation so strong as in the shrikes. Nevertheless there are as we have said gentle gradations from one genus to the other. The regimen of this genus is more frugivorous. They live pretty generally on berries. Their habits are solitary. The name of blackbird is more especially applied

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side of the eye black. India. T. Dominicanus Gml Pl. Enl. t. 627. f. 2. Brown glossed with violet and blue; beneath brownish-white; tail-base bluish end greenish. T. Squammeus Vieil. Vail. O. A. t. 116. Head neck and chest black; feathers of belly and beneath dirty-white black tipt; of wing-coverts and back black yellow-edged; tail subcuneate. Africa. T. Tibicen Vieil. Vail. O. A. t. 112. f. 2. Brown-spotted beneath pale-gray; tail wedge-shaped pointed. Africa. T. Ph nicurus Vieil. Vail. O. A. t

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nearly black; streak under it yellow; face and throat ash colour; length five inches and a half. Java. Myiothera Melanothorax Tem. Pl. Col. t. 185. f. 2. Crest and back brown; face breast and belly light-blue and white; lower belly gray; lesser wing-coverts red with a white spot; and irregular black spots on breast. Myiothera Superciliaris Licht. Sooty; eyebrows white; wing-coverts and tail-feathers black white tipt; quills entirely black; length five inches. Brazil. Myiothera Fuliginosa Illiger

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Brown beneath white; head above and throat black; eye-spot blue; bill black; feet bluish; cheeks naked Vieil.? feathered Desm.? [page] 41

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Pipra Serena Lin. Pl. Enl. t. 324. f. 2. Black; forehead white; rump blue; belly fulvous. Brazil. Pipra Gutturalis Lin. Pl. Enl. t. 324. f. 1. Black; throat white. Pipra Leucocapilla Lin. Pl. Enl. t. 34. f. 2. Black; crown white. Brazil. P. Manacus Lin. Pl. Enl. t. 302. f. 1. 303. f. 1. Black; beneath white; aurical and wing spot white. P. Strigilata Pr. Max. Pl. Col. t. 54. f. 1 2. Above green-waved; quills ash beneath buff with deeper waves; male with a crimson crest. Pipra Erythrocephala

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tail-feathers long blue; feet reddish; length six inches and a half. P. Militaris Shaw's Misc. t. 849. P. Rubrifrons Vieil. Black beneath white; forehead and rump red; tail two middle feathers longest pointed; bill blackish; feet yellow. P. Melanocephala Vieil. Head primary quills and tail black; rump wing-coverts and tail above red; cheeks and throat ashy; body beneath white; two middle tail-feathers longer acute; bill brown; feet gray. South America. And the genus PHIBALURA of Vieillot which

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Dusky Warbler Mot. Fuscata Gml. Pl. Enl. t. 584. f. 2. Brown beneath gray; sides reddish; quills and tail darker; tail elongated. Senegal. These are perhaps Maluri. Mot. Cyane Pallas Rise. iii. Deep-blue beneath snow-white; eyebrows black; side tail-feathers white. Russia. White-chinned Warbler Mot. Bonariensis Gtnelin. Black beneath furrugineous; throat lores middle of belly and tips of tail white; length five inches and a half. Borneo. Taylor Warbler Mot. Sutoria Gml. Ind. Zool. t. 8. Entire

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. Bifasciata Say. Greenish-blue; beneath and line over eye white; wings bifasciate with white; tail black; tail feathers with a white spot. North America. [page] 45

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. f. 1. Head and back blue; tail and wings varied with black; throat belly and across the back yellow; vent and bars on wings white. Brazil. Hylophilus Thoracicus Temm. Pl. Col. t. 173. f. 1. Patch of greenish-yellow on the thorax and flanks; neck and throat ash-colour; top of head back wings and tail green. Brazil. Hylophilus Poicilotis Temm. Pl. Col. t. 173. f. 2. Top of head and occiput red; forehead paler; cheeks striped black and white; throat ash; upper part and tail green; belly yellow

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H. Hortensis. Lich. H. flavigastra, Vieil. Azara, 306. Body above blackish brown; throat and crop red; chest and belly yellowish white. Paraguay. Red-headed Swallow. Lath. Hir. Erythrocephala. Gm. Blackish above; white beneath; head red; wings and tail brown. India. Ash-bellied Swallow. Lath. H. cinerea. Gm. Shining black; beneath* ash; tail edged with yellowish gray. Peru and Otaheite. H. leucorh a. Vieil. Blue, with violet tint over the eyes and body; beneath, white; quills and tail, black

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, dusky green. Bahama Islands. Fringilla Tricolor. Vieil. Ois. Chant, pl. 20. Top of head, throat, and all the posterior parts, azure blue; croup, red; rest of plumage, green olive-Timor. Fringilla Cinerea. Vieil. pl. 6. Ois. Chanteurs. All the upper parts, ashen gray; upper tail-coverts and quills, black; lower, white; breast, and upper belly, flesh-colour, succeeded by a lively rose, as far as anus. Africa. Fringilla C rulescenes. Vieil. Ois. Chant. 8. For the most part bluish-gray, clearer on

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Loxia rosea. Vieil. pl. 65. Ois. Chanteurs. Plumage, fine rose-colour, varied with grayish brown, on the occiput, top of neck, back, and wing-coverts, and gradually growing white beneath. India.* Some foreign species must be distinguished from the grosbeaks. PITYLUS, Cuv. With a bill equally thick, a little compressed, arched above, and sometimes with a salient angle at the middle of the edge of the upper jaw. Such are, White-throated Grosbeak. (Loxia grossa. L.) Enl. 154. Deep blue; base of

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The jackdaw terminates the tribe of true crows, because its upper mandible is not much more sensibly arched than the lower. But to this tribe we must add, Chattering Crow. (Corvus Jamaicensis.) Gm. Entirely black; size of a common crow. Corneille duvet blanc, Downy crow of Latham, Corvus Leu- cognaphalus, Daud. is the same, furnished with fine white down at the base of the feathers. White-breasted Crow. Corvus Dauricus. Gm. Enl. 327. Black; head and throat, glossed with blue; neck, breast, and

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square tail; head, nape, and cheeks, ultramarine; mantle and middle of back, ashy, shaded with ultramarine; wings and tail, last colour; throat, abdomen, and tail-coverts, whitish. Mexico. Corvus Floridanus. Ch. Bonap. I. 13. 1. Approximating to the last, but the blue of the back is more lively, and all the azure colours have more brilliancy. Wings, in proportion to tail, longer. North America. Corvus Torqnatns. Garruie Torqu ole. Temm. PI. Col. 444. An extensive white space on all the neck

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and Java. Sitta Chrysoptera. Lath. 3. Suppl. 327. Ashen above; croup, upper tail-coverts, and all below, clear blue; wings, orange at the edge. New Holland. Sitta Pusilla. Lath. Top of the head and neck, brown; white band on nape; wings, blatkish; underneath, whitish. North America.* The SITTINES. (XENOPS. Ileger.) Which differ only in having the bill a little more compressed, of which the under ridge: is more curved. * To these are added Sitta Fusca Vieil. Sitta Chloris. Sparman. Sitta Caffra

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. Metallica. Lich. Ruppel. pl. 7. and coll. 347. Head, neck, back, and small wing-coverts, metallic green; half-collar of lively metallic blue on the thoracic region: jonquil below. Nubia. Nec. Mysticalis. Coll. 126. Small moustache of metallic violet on each side of the bill; calotte on the head, of same colour. Java. [page] 36

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them to fly like the swallows. They pursue insects in large bodies, especially bees, wasps, c., and it is remarkable that they are not stung by them. There is one species common in the south of Europe, but rare in our latitudes. The Common Bee-Eater. (Merops Apiaster.) Enl. 938, Naum. 163. Vaill. Guep. 1 and 2. A fine bird with a yellow back; forehead and belly blue; the throat yellow, surrounded with black; which builds in hollows; it digs in banks four or five feet deep. The young continue

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a loose plumage, varied with different shades of blue and green. They may be distinguished according to their bills, which, are sometimes simply straight and pointed, as in the common species. Great African Kingfisher, Alcedo Afra. Sh. Maxima. Lath. Enl. 679. Deap lead-colour; ferrugineous beneath, covered with small white spots; crest on head and neck; sue of a crow. Africa. Belted Kingfisher. (Al. Alcyon, 715 and 593, and Wilson's Amer. III.) Bluish-ash, above; white beneath; collar and

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white, with black stripes; face and throat, rose-coloured. Black-throated Barbet. B. Niger. Enl. 688. Vieill. Gal. 33. Above, black, with yellow spots; beneath, white. Philippine Islands, and Cape. Beautiful Barbet. B. Maynanensis.* Lath. Green; head, and throat, red, margined with blue; breast, yellow. South America. The Elegant Barbet. The B. Elegans. Gm. Enl. 688. Appears to be nearly allied to the last, if not the same. Bearded Barbet. B. Barbiculus. Cuv. Vaill. 56. Beard longer than the bill

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Scaly-breasted Parrakeet. P. Squamosus. Shaw, Mis. 1061. Top of head, and neck, purple-brown; green on the upper part; brown, beneath; the feathers margined with white. Less than a blackbird. Banded Parrakeet. P. Vittatus. Vaill. 17. All above, and sides of belly, green; chest, yellowish- ash, with darker bands; quills of wings, blue above; tail, green. Brazil. Wave-breasted Parrakeet. P. Versicolor. Enl. 144. Vaill. 16. Shining-green; throat, brown, each feather with a yellow margin. Cayenne

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brane at its base, as well as the greater part of the head, covered with short and close feathers like velvet. The commonest species, called Cushew Curassow. Crax Pauxi. Lin. Enl. 78. Vieill. Galer. 200. Carries at the base of the bill an oval tubercle, nearly as thick as the head, of a bright blue colour, and stony hardness. This bird is black, but about the vent and at the end of the tail, white. It lays on the ground. Its native country is not certainly known. The trachea descends on the

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white; neck and chest, ashy-yellow, with a double black and whitish chest-band. Hen, with the bands and forehead, dark spotted; feathers, brown, red, and whitish streaked. Inhabits South Africa. Crowned Sand Grous. Pterocles Coronatus, Licht. Col. 339, and 40. Purplish-grey; top of neck and ears, yellow; forehead and orbits, white; chin and nasal streak, black; crown, purplish-grey, surrounded by a blue streak; wing-coverts, yellow, black spotted; tail, with black band, and white tips. Nubia

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, with six spots; quill, brown, rufous edged; tail, blue-black, with a timud band, two outer white tipt. South America. Length, 6 inches. Hottentot Pigeon. Lath. H. Col. Hottentotta. Tem. Vaill. 283. Rufous; forehead and throat, white; neck and chest, vinaceous-ash, white and black mooned; belly and abdomen, vinaceous; feather above, rufous; beneath, ashy. South Africa. Col. Cobacola. Spix. t. 7. f. l.* Above and beneath, cinnamon; head, lead-coloured; quills, black; wings above, with eight or

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tail, brown; sides, black-ended and white tipped. Males, golden under the ears. The female is C. Martinicana, Lath. South America. Javan Turtle. C. Javanica. Enl. 177. Tem. 26. Son. 66. Green; head, bluish white; neck and chest, vinaceous red; belly, duller; quills and tail, blackish blue. Java. The C. Albicapilla, C. Indica, and C. C ru-leocephala, of Latham, are only varieties. Jamboo Pigeon. Lath. C. Jamboo. Lath. Tem. 27, 8. Green; head, red; throat, black; chest and belly, white; chest

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; tail-feathers and quills, deep blue; feet, red; the eye in a lilac spot, surrounded with white. Molucca Islands. C. Luctuosa. Reinw. Col. 247. Head, body, and wing-coverts, light-ash, nearly white; quills, slate; tail, black. Molucca. C. Hyogastra. R. Col. 252. Top and sides of head and large wing-coverts, slate; body, quills, and tail, above, deep-green; belly, with a deep vinous irregular patch; vent, yellow. Celebes. C. Monarcha. R. Col. 253. Front, top of head, and patch on breast, ultra

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. Head, neck, and wing-bend, violet-red; occiput, shining golden-violet; back and lower parts, reddish-blue; wing and tail, blackish; tail-feather-white tipped. The Latin name of the Biset Pigeon. M. Vieillot has changed it into TARRON. [page] 9

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belly, deep-green; quills, black, tipped with yellow; legs, red. Sumatra. C. Capellei. Col. 143. Face, light-ash; top of head, throat, nape, back, and belly, deep-green, waved with blue; quills, black, tipped with yellow; tail, black, tipped with ash; breast patch, obscure yellowish-red. Sumatra. Some of these also have a pointed tail. C. Oxyura. Tem. Col. 240. Green; obscure bar across the breast, reddish; quills, black; tail-feather, black, tipped with ash; beneath, yellow. Java.* * Purple

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daries, green; wing-coverts, greenish; middle of wing, shining blue; lower part of neck, shining violet. Brazils. Length, 19 inches. P. Leucoptera, Id. 84. Above and beneath, black; quills and secondaries, white; wing-coverts, violet and green, shiny; back, black; lower part of neck, copper-violet. Brazils. 21 inches. Some other foreign Cranes, which have the bill shorter than ours, ought to follow. They form the genus Anthropoides of Vieillot The Crowned Crane, Lath. Edw. t. 192. Ardea

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Blue Heron. C rulescens, Lath. Ard. C rulea, Lath, (not Var.), Wilson, A. O. t. 62, f. 3. Pl. Enl. t. 349. Catesb. Car. t. 76 young. Ard. Cyanopus, Lath. Crested, bluish-slate; feathers of the back and breast, slender, long; head and neck, purplish-brown; three occipital feathers; young not crested; head and neck coloured like the body. North America. Yellow-necked Heron. Ard. Flavicollis, Lath. Ard. Nigra, Vieil. Back, wings, and tail, bluish-black; streak on side of neck, yellow; head

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, appears probably to be a Porphyrio, or Purple-hen. The P. Africanus of Latham hardly differs. P. Chavaria, is a Palamedea. There are also some in Asia. Indian Jacana. Parra nea. P. Melanchloris Vieill. Gal. 264. Parra Superciliosa. Horsf. Java. Body, black, changing into blue and violet; mantle, bronzed green; rump and tail, sanguine red; anterior wing-quills, green; a white stripe behind the eye. The spines are blunt and small. Most probably the same as the Parra Indica, Lath. Some have also been

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, cunieform. The Gallinula Stellaris, Tem. Mss. Dwarf Gallinule, Lath. R. Pusillus, Naum. 32. F. 43. Face, foreneck to middle of breast, blue-grey; chin, white; all the upper parts, black, mixed with fer [page] 40

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Penguin, Lath. Hist. Aptenodytes hirsutus, Gray. Brown; covered with thickset hair like feathers; toes, three. South America. Length, two feet and a half. Woolly Penguin, Lath. Hist. x. t. 181. Aptenodytes Lanatus, Gray. Brown; covered with downy fur-like feathers; toes, three. Length, two feet, eight inches. Museum of Lord Stanley. Chiloe Penguin. Aptenodytes Chiloensis, Lath. Body, with ash-coloured down; toes, four. Three-toed Penguin. Apt. Molin , Lath. Blue; beneath, white; toes, three

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Yellow-nosed Albatros. D. Chlororhynchos. Lath. V. pl. 94. Col. 468. Bill, black; base and upper edge, yellow; body above, blue-black; beneath and rump, white. Sooty Albatros. D. Fuliginosa, Col. 469. Sooty-brown, with white before the eyes, and a black bill. The GULLS. LARUS,* L. Have the bill compressed, elongated, pointed, with the upper mandible bent towards the end, and the lower forming underneath a salient angle. Their nostrils, placed towards the middle, are long, narrow, and bored

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, greyish-brown, glossy; bill blue, the end marked with diverging striae. Ural Mountain. demia Leucocephala. Steph. F ligula Oxyura Leucocephala, Ch. Bonaparte. [page] 60

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, white. Brazils. Dusky Duck, An. Obscura, Wils. viij. 72, 5. Blackish-brown; mirror, violet-blue, black-edged; under wing-coverts, pure-white. America. [page] 62

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-green, with a pendant crest at the occiput. The young and the female H. Manteau Noir, Naum. 62, f. 95, have the head brown. Smew Merganser, M. Albellus, L. Enl. 449, Frisch. 172, Naum. 63, f. 97, Brit. Zool. pl. N. 1, Wils. Am. viij. 71, f. 4. With blue bill and feet; the body white, varied with black on the mantle; a black spot on the eye, and on the occiput. The young male and the female, M. Minutus Mustelinus, c., Enl. 450, Brit. Zool. pl. N. 2, Naum. 63, f. 98, are grey, with a red head

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. Psammodromus. Fitz. Spanish Lizard. L. (Psammodromus) Hispanicus, Fitz MSS. See also Var. of Lac. grammica, Licht. Blackish blue, lighter underneath. Spain. III. Back and tail with keeled scales, belly with smooth imbricate scales, collar none, femoral pores numerous. Algyra Cuv. Common Algyra. Lac. (Algyra) Cuvieri, Lac. Algyra, Lin. Tail long, round, brown, beneath yellowish, with two yellow streaks on each side; length four inches. Spain. IV. Back and tail with lanceolate imbricate keeled scales

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, large, recurved, rather compressed. Mexico. Mus. Berl. C. Ribs forming complete circles; head scutellated; throat extensile. I. Head hooded; back crested; pores o.; toes margined on the side. Basilicus, nob. (part Cuvier.) Mitred Basilisc. Bas. Americanus, Laur. Lac. Basilicus, Lim. Seb. i. t. 100. f. 1. Guiana. Mus. Brit. Banded Basilisc. Basiliscus Vittatus, Boie. Blue, with two series of spots down the sides of the back, and white streak along each side of the dorsal ridge, another edging

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Lophura. Lophura Cuvieri, Gray, Mus. Paris. Brown green spotted; body with four or five oblique, bands of blue-eyed spots; scales of body and tail small subequal; back and end of tail with a series of distant, short, compressed spines. Tail compressed, interrupted by distant rings, upper and lower edge two keeled. Cochin China. Lesueur's Lophura. L. Lesueurii, Gray, Mus. Paris. Dark brown, varied with pale netted lines; scales of head conical, with scattered acute conical tubercles on the head and

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sided, slightly keeled; dark brown; sides, with dark band and cross rows of white spots beneath. Depp's Gerrhonote. Gerr. Deppii, Wiegm. Isis. xxi. Dorsal scales four angular, smooth; olive black, irregularly white spotted, beneath white; tail round, white ringed. Mexico. Retired Gerrhonote. Gerrhonotus T niatus. Wiegm. Dorsal scales four angular, smooth; bluish, with black angular cross bands; tail black, ringed. Blue Gerrhonote. Gerrhonotus C ruleus, Wiegm. Dorsal scales, four angular; olive

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Thin Scaled Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Tenuis, Gray. Pale brown, back with irregular black spots, forming a band on each side the back, scales thin polished. Fine Scaled Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Microlepis, Gray. Pale, with numerous irregular transverse brown bands; head very depressed, forehead flat, eyes large, tail slender, toes very unequal. Scales very thin, closely adpressed keeled. Banded Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Fasciatus. Silvery blue, head with three, neck with one, back and tail with six broad

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Have, with the same teeth, the same scales and pores, a head very much swelled behind, without cuticular appendage; and a crest of large pointed scales on the bade and tail, which is much compressed. We are acquainted with one large species of Cochin-China (Physignathus cocininus, Nob.); blue, with strong scales, and some spines on the swelling of the sides of the head. It lives on fruits, c. ISTIURUS, Cuv. LOPHURA, Gray.* Have, as a distinctive character, an elevated and trenchant crest