. Animals in menageries. 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 thefollowing species, equal-ly green, renders theoriginal specific name for this so objectionable, that I thinkornithologists will agree in distinguishing it, hereafter
. Animals in menageries. 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 thefollowing species, equal-ly green, renders theoriginal specific name for this so objectionable, that I thinkornithologists will agree in distinguishing it, hereafter, by thatof its original discoverer, no less illustrious as a naturalist,than as a statesman. The sexes, according to sir S. Raffles,are coloured precisely alike. 50. Calyptomina caudacuta. Entirely green. Gape with setaceous hairs: tailrounded; the feathers narrowed towards their tips, whichterminate in fine soft points, {fig. 48. h) Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. Size rather larger than the last. General colour of a Chh-. OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 297 ropsis : tail tinged with blue. Total length 7\ inches; bill,gape ^ ; wings 4; tail, beyond, |; outer tail feather \ shorterthan the middle ; tarsus ^; hind toe and claw iS.* 51. Brachystoma cinerea. Body entirely cinereous: wings dark brown^ withpale edges to the quills; tail black, glossed with green-ish^ and marked by darker transverse linear shades. Inhabits the interior of New Holland. Found byMr. Allan Cunningham. Total length 12 inches; bill, gape I ; ditto, from the front^; wings nearly 6 ; tail, beyond, S^; ditto, from the base 7 ;tarsus 1^9_ . hind toe and claw ^. The tips of the feathers onthe head and neck are paler : bill and feet black. 52. Lamprotornis melanogaster. Shining sea green; glossed with purple on the ears,scapulars, rump, and upper tail covers: belly and flanksblack; the latter glossed with copper : quills and tailblack, with obscure purplish edges. Inhabits Senegal. Mus. Nost. Total length about 8 inch
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