The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . his death , he founded prizes at the school of 6nearts in Pans and for the town of Amiens, and endowedSt Quentin with a great number of useful and charitableinstitutions. He never married, but lived on terms ofwarm affection with his brother (who survived him, andleft to the town tlie drawings now in the museum), andbis relations to Mdlle. Fel. the celebrated singer, were dis-t
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . his death , he founded prizes at the school of 6nearts in Pans and for the town of Amiens, and endowedSt Quentin with a great number of useful and charitableinstitutions. He never married, but lived on terms ofwarm affection with his brother (who survived him, andleft to the town tlie drawings now in the museum), andbis relations to Mdlle. Fel. the celebrated singer, were dis-tinguished by a strength and depth of feelmg not commonto the loves of the 18th century. See, in addition to the general works on French art. works, of wltich tie most important is Lt iltlxquaxTt de laTour, Guifftcy and Toumeux, Corrcspondance bUdtU di -V Q dela Tout , Ctiampfleury, Dc la Tout, and PciMres de Loon et de SiQueniin; and DreoUe de Nodon, £loge Biographique de HI Q. dela Tour TOURACO, the name, evidently already in use, underwhich in 1743 Edwards figured a pretty African bird,*and presumaby that applied to it in Guinea, whence ithad been brought alive. It is the Cuailus persa of Lin-. White-Crested Touraco (Turacus albicrisatus). After Schle^el. naeus, and Turacus or Corytkaix persa of later authors, whoperceived that it required generic separation. Cuvier, in1799 or 1800. Latinized its native name (adopted in themeanwhile by both French and German writers) as above,for which barbarous term lUiger, in 1811, substituted a .pparently the first ornithologist to make the bird known wasA ,in, who figured it in 1738 from the life, yet badly, as **The Crown,bird of Mexico. He had doubtless been misinformed as to its propercountry; but Touracos were called Crown-birds by the Europeansin West Africa, as witness Bosnians Description of the. Coast of Guinea(1721). ed. 2, p. 251, and W. Smiths Voyage to Guinea (1745), though the namo was aUo given to the
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