. Animals in menageries. crest feathers tipt with length, six inches and ahalf. {fig. 45.) Inhabits Brazil and Guiana ;but very rare in the length 6h inches; bill, front fg ; ditto, gape 1 ; wings 8^*5. OP NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 2S5 tail, beyond, Ifg ; ditto, base Sfg ; tarsus ^. Notwithstandingthe remarkable difference in size between this delicate littlespecies and the robust S. sulphuratus, their colours are soexactly alike, that I can only detect the trivial variation in thecrest, as mentioned above. 13. Megastoma flaviceps. Above, olive brown ; beneath, fine y
. Animals in menageries. crest feathers tipt with length, six inches and ahalf. {fig. 45.) Inhabits Brazil and Guiana ;but very rare in the length 6h inches; bill, front fg ; ditto, gape 1 ; wings 8^*5. OP NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 2S5 tail, beyond, Ifg ; ditto, base Sfg ; tarsus ^. Notwithstandingthe remarkable difference in size between this delicate littlespecies and the robust S. sulphuratus, their colours are soexactly alike, that I can only detect the trivial variation in thecrest, as mentioned above. 13. Megastoma flaviceps. Above, olive brown ; beneath, fine yellow : chin, andcircle round the crown, white: crown and ears blackish,with a concealed crest of fine yellow. Inhabits Northern Brazil. Total length 9 inches ; bill, gape 1-fg ; front Ij-^; wings 4/^ ;tail, beyond, \\; base 4 ; tarsus ?^. This is, probably, theLanius pitanga of Linna^an authors. 14. Megastoma Qujiceps. Colour resembling M. flaviceps; but the concealedcrest is rufous, and the body beneath, orange yellow. Inhabits Southern Brazil. Mus. Nost. Total length S~ inches ; bill 1^ ; gape 1^ ; front 1^ ; wings4^; tail, beyond, 2 ; base 3^ ; tarsus ^. 15. Megastoma atriceps. Colour resembling WI. flaviceps ; bu
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