. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. 197 The Promeropses {Promerops, Brisson),— Are not crested, but possess a very long tail; their tongue, furcate and extensile, enables them to suck the nectar of flowers, like the Humming-birds and Sun-birds. [There are many species, found only in the warm regions of the eastern liemisphere.] The Epimachus, Cuv.,— Consists of Birds, which, with the beak of the Hoopoes and Promeropses, combine velvety or scale- like feathers, whi
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. 197 The Promeropses {Promerops, Brisson),— Are not crested, but possess a very long tail; their tongue, furcate and extensile, enables them to suck the nectar of flowers, like the Humming-birds and Sun-birds. [There are many species, found only in the warm regions of the eastern liemisphere.] The Epimachus, Cuv.,— Consists of Birds, which, with the beak of the Hoopoes and Promeropses, combine velvety or scale- like feathers, which partly cover the nostrils, as in the Birds-of-Paradise; they inhabit also the same countries; and have equally gorgeous plumage. The males have even tufts of lengthened feathers, more or less produced, upon the flanks. The Superb Epimachus {Upupa tnagna, Lin.).—Black, with a graduated tail, three times longer than the body ; the feathers on the flanks elongated, turned up, and frizzled, with the edges of a burnished steel-blue; and most magnificent coloured glosses on the plumage generally. Naturalists have distinguished the square-tailed species, or The Ptiloris, Swainson,— Such as the Twelve-wired Epimachus (Ep. albtts; Paradistea alba, Blum.), which was long ranged among the Birds-of-Paradise, on account of the long bunches of white plumes which decorate its flanks, the stems of them being prolonged into six barbless filaments on each side. The body is usually violet-black, and the feathers on the bottom of the breast have an edging or border of emerald green. Ep. magnijlcus, Cuv., and Ep. regius. Lesson, are two other superb species of this subdivision. The second and smaller principal division of the Passerintc consists of Birds wherein the outer toe is nearly as long as the middle one, and connected to it as far as the second joint. We make but one group of them, that of The Syndactyli, Long since divided into five genera, which we retain. [None of them are mod
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