. Animals in menageries. Inhabits North America. Total length 121 inches ; wings 6 ; tarsus ?^^. 56. QuiscALus , neck, and breast, glossed with lilac purple,without any green. Bill l-j^^ inch from the North America, {fig. 50. h) Total length Hi inches; wings 5| ; tarsus 1^. Ornitho-logists have considered the two last birds as only varieties;but, from inspecting a number of specimens, I am disposed, at OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 2^() least for the present, to suspect they are distinct: the latter maypossibly be the female of L. versicolor*, but there does notapp
. Animals in menageries. Inhabits North America. Total length 121 inches ; wings 6 ; tarsus ?^^. 56. QuiscALus , neck, and breast, glossed with lilac purple,without any green. Bill l-j^^ inch from the North America, {fig. 50. h) Total length Hi inches; wings 5| ; tarsus 1^. Ornitho-logists have considered the two last birds as only varieties;but, from inspecting a number of specimens, I am disposed, at OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 2^() least for the present, to suspect they are distinct: the latter maypossibly be the female of L. versicolor*, but there does notappear sufficient evidence of this fact. 57. Qu ISC ALUS luguhris. Plumage black, obscurely glossed with purple. Wings4I- inches long. Inhabits Brazil, {fig. 50. c) Total length 9^ inches; bill, gape 1^; wings 4^; tail,base 4; tarsus 1^; middle toe 1^; hinder 1. There isa very obscure greenish tinge on the wings and tail. 58. QuiscALus length 15 inches: bill 1J inch long, very -^ 51. slender ; the commissure not sinuated. Plumage black,slightly glossed with violet. Claws slender, but slightlycurved, {fig. 51. b, c) Inhabits the marshes adjoining Mexico. Mus. Nost. Total length 151 inches ; bill, from the gape If^^; front 1-^;wings 6;^; tail, beyond, 5 ; base 7f ; tarsus 1-^jj; hind toe andclaw 1^3^; middle ditto 1^: second and third quills nearlyequal, and longest; the first shorter than the fourth ; lateraltoes equal. 59. QuiscALus length near 20 inches : biU 2 inches black, glossed with blue on the body, and withobscure greenish on the wings and tail. Claws slender,but fully curved, {fig. 51. a) * The prince of Musignano says that the bill of the female measuresnearly an inch and a half long ; whereas this is little more than an inch. 300 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER Inhabits Real del Monte^ Mexico. Total length 19^ inches; bill, gape 2; wings 8 ; tail,base 10; outer feather 4 inches shorter; tarsus 1^; hind toeand claw \\. Resemb
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