. A dictionary of birds . (Stork), but bysome ^ regarded as constituting adistinct Family. Two specieshave long been known—one In-dian, parti-coloured, A. oscitans,])ondicerianus or coromandelianus;coloured, A. lamelligerus. Bill of Ai*astomus. (After Swainson.) the other African and darkso called from the curious flatteningand broadening into shining horny-plates of its feather-shafts,especially on the lower parts. In 1880, Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the form inhabiting Madagascar as distinct,A. madagascariensis. It differs chiefly from the African in itssmaller size, and the deep
. A dictionary of birds . (Stork), but bysome ^ regarded as constituting adistinct Family. Two specieshave long been known—one In-dian, parti-coloured, A. oscitans,])ondicerianus or coromandelianus;coloured, A. lamelligerus. Bill of Ai*astomus. (After Swainson.) the other African and darkso called from the curious flatteningand broadening into shining horny-plates of its feather-shafts,especially on the lower parts. In 1880, Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the form inhabiting Madagascar as distinct,A. madagascariensis. It differs chiefly from the African in itssmaller size, and the deeper grooving of the bill. OPISTHOCOMUS, see Hoactzin. ORANGE-BIRD, a name in Jamaica for SpmdaUs (properlySpindasis) nigricephcda, wrongly identified by Gosse {B. Jam. p. 231)with the Fringilla zena of Linnaius (which proves to be peculiar toBahama), one of the Tanagers, and so-called, says the former,from the resemblance of its plump and glowing breast to that ^ At pages 166 and 225 this species was mentioned as extinct: an example,however, was obtained in 1892, and its remains are in Mr. Rothschilds collec-tion. ^ Others, and more recent, are Shell-eater, Shell-Ibis, and Snail-eater, ofwhich the first two are incorr
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