. Animals in menageries. 806;it was taken from a specimen which formed part of thefamous collection made there by the French, which was cap-tured and sold by auction in this country in that year. 46. Trichas superciliosus. Above, olive green ; beneath, white: head above,nape, and ears, greyish black : a white line before andabove the eye : middle of the crown with a pale stripe:under tail covers, yellow. Legs very long. Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. Size of T. velatus. Innerwing covers and flanks olive 21 inches ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe and claw ^ ; hind ditto^. The crown is darkest
. Animals in menageries. 806;it was taken from a specimen which formed part of thefamous collection made there by the French, which was cap-tured and sold by auction in this country in that year. 46. Trichas superciliosus. Above, olive green ; beneath, white: head above,nape, and ears, greyish black : a white line before andabove the eye : middle of the crown with a pale stripe:under tail covers, yellow. Legs very long. Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. Size of T. velatus. Innerwing covers and flanks olive 21 inches ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe and claw ^ ; hind ditto^. The crown is darkest on the sides, and pale grey in themiddle ; all the under parts, to the vent, pure white, tingedwith grey on the sides of the neck and breast. 47. Trighas brachickictylus. Above, olive green; beneath, yellow : a black filletenveloping the front, eyes, and ears, bordered above bycinereous white. Lateral toes nearly equal, and shorterthan the hinder one. Inhabits, plentifully, the northern provinces of theUnited States. u 4. 296 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER In general size and colour it is perfectly similar to Trichaspersoimtus, although the wings and tail are rather shorter: itis, however, at once distinguished by the structure of its feet:the two lateral toes are all but equal, and they are shorter thanthe hind toe ; whereas in personatus the inner toe is consider-ably the shortest, and the outer toe is as long as the hind characters have been drawn from many specimens, bothold and young. 48. Chloropsis green, with a blue stripe beneath the ears. {fig. 47.) Inhabits India ? Mus. Nost. Total length 6 inches ; bill, gape/g; wings 3 ; tail, beyond, 1|; tarsus?JS^; the smallest species I haveyet seen. 49. Calyptomina Rafflesia. Green : gape smooth: spot on the ears, and threebands upon the wings,black. Tail short,even,the feathers truncateand slightly emargin-ate. ( a) Calyp-tomina viridis, The discovery of thefollo
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