. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . death ; he founded prizes at the school of finearts in Paris and for the town of Amiens, and endowedSt Quentin with a great number of useful and charitableinstitutions. He never married, but lived on terms ofwarm affection with his brother (who survived him, andkft to the town the drawings now in the museum); andhis relations to Mdlle. Fel, the celebrated singer, were dis-tinguished by a strength and depth of feeling not commonto the loves of the 18th century. See, in aiMition to the geDeral works on Fr
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . death ; he founded prizes at the school of finearts in Paris and for the town of Amiens, and endowedSt Quentin with a great number of useful and charitableinstitutions. He never married, but lived on terms ofwarm affection with his brother (who survived him, andkft to the town the drawings now in the museum); andhis relations to Mdlle. Fel, the celebrated singer, were dis-tinguished by a strength and depth of feeling not commonto the loves of the 18th century. See, in aiMition to the geDeral works on French art, Deama^,three works, of which the most important is Le Jlcliquaire de laTour; GuifTi-ey and Toumeux, Correspondance Inidite de it. Q. dela Tour; Cliampfleury, De la Tour, and Peinhcs de Laon el de StQuentin; and Dreolle da Nodon, Eloge £iographique de M. Q. dela Tour. TOURACO, the name, evidently already in use, underwhich in 17-43 Edwards figured a pretty African bird,and presumably that applied to it in Guinea, whence ithad been brought alive. It is the Cueulus persa of Lin-. Whlte-Crested Toiiroco (Tiiraohs albicristatus). After Schlegel. nrens, and Turacvs or CoryUiaix persa of later authors, whopiirceived that it required generic separation. Cuvier, in199 or 1800, Latinized its native name (adopted in themeanwhile by both French and German writers) as above,for which barbarous term lUiger, in 1811, substituted a , Apparently the first ornithologist to make the bird known wasAlhin, who figured it in 1738 from the life, yet badly, as The Crown-Vird of Mexico. He had doubtless been miainformed aa to its propercountry; but Touracos were called Crown-birds by the Europeansin West Africa, as witness Bosnians Oescnplwu of the Coast of Guinea(1721), ed. 2, p. 251, and W. Smiths Voj/age to Guinea (1745), , though the name was also given to the Crowned Cranes,Jialearica. more classical word. In 1788 Isert described and {Bcohacht. GeselUh. naturf. /reunde, iii.
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