. Animals in menageries. the back and rumpdull black, obscurely glossed with greenish ; first quill nearlyas long as the two next: secondaries with mucronated tips.* 6l. QuiscALUs infiexirostris. Bill slender, near^ inch long; com-missure curved;themargins consider-ably in flexed, andnot sinuated. Plu-mage black, glossed with purple on the body, andgreenish on the wings, {fig^ 52.) Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. Liverpool Institution. Size and colour precisely like Q. lugubris ; but the greatdifference in their bills induces me to consider them quite dis-tinct. In this, the bill is longer and much more
. Animals in menageries. the back and rumpdull black, obscurely glossed with greenish ; first quill nearlyas long as the two next: secondaries with mucronated tips.* 6l. QuiscALUs infiexirostris. Bill slender, near^ inch long; com-missure curved;themargins consider-ably in flexed, andnot sinuated. Plu-mage black, glossed with purple on the body, andgreenish on the wings, {fig^ 52.) Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. Liverpool Institution. Size and colour precisely like Q. lugubris ; but the greatdifference in their bills induces me to consider them quite dis-tinct. In this, the bill is longer and much more slender, theupper mandible and the commissure more curved, but withoutany sinuosity at the margins, which are also much inflexed. • The Quiscalus major of the American ornithologists is stated to havea bill only one inch and three quarters from the angle of the mouth ; buttheir descriptions, in other respects, are so defective, that it is impossibleto determine itscomparative characters with those here defined. l^iOJ. OF NEW OB LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 301 62. ScAPHiDURA barita.
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