. Animals in menageries. e on the sides of the neck forms a sort of half-collar below the nape : two middle tail feathers black brown ;the rest black, with a broad white oblique band, leaving thetips partially black : bill and feet horn colour. 135. Philedon size and colours of Philedon 3 326 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER Sides of the head as far as the ears, and a spot on eachside of the neck, naked : crown of the head, chin, andnape, covered with feathers: culmen continued in anelevated ridge on the front, where it abruptly terminates. Inhabits New Holland.
. Animals in menageries. e on the sides of the neck forms a sort of half-collar below the nape : two middle tail feathers black brown ;the rest black, with a broad white oblique band, leaving thetips partially black : bill and feet horn colour. 135. Philedon size and colours of Philedon 3 326 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER Sides of the head as far as the ears, and a spot on eachside of the neck, naked : crown of the head, chin, andnape, covered with feathers: culmen continued in anelevated ridge on the front, where it abruptly terminates. Inhabits New Holland. Paris Mus. Having mislaid the description I made of this singular bird,T cannot give further particulars. It has been evidently con-founded with the common species, since it bore the nameof Merops eornicnlatus in the French museum, where the otherdid not then (1828) exist. The state of the specimen enabledme to make a drawing of the tongue, which has hitherto beenentirely unknown. The annexed cut is of the natural 136. EuRYST03ius Australis. Sea green: crown grey brown : throat, quills, andbase of the tail feathers, vividblue : six of the greater quillswith a greenish white basal band. Inhabits New Holland. Smaller than E. orientalis. Thebill is less compressed, and there-fore much broader. The coloursare lighter, but the wings muchbluer; the spurious wings are en-tirely vivid blue, as well as the outerwebs of the quills ; while in orientalisthese parts are almost black, {fg. 68. a) 137. EuRYSTOMUS orientalis green : crown black : throat blue : quills black ;the base of four with a bluish green band. PI. Enl. India, {jig. QQ. 6),
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