. Animals in menageries. : the tail broad, and,with the wings, more than usually rounded : it seems the an-nectant species between Agelaius and Leistes. Total length 8inches ; bill, base -^ ; front f^ ; wings 3^^; the first and secondquills graduated; tail, base nearly 4; tarsus f^; hind toe andclaw ^. 76. MoLOTHRUS brevirostris. Entirely black, slightly glossed with purple short, ^ inch long : wings little more than 4 inches. Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. {fig. 54. c) Total length 7^ inches; bill from tlie base, ^^; from thenostrils I; wings 4fg; tail, beyond, l-^^; base 3; tarsus, al
. Animals in menageries. : the tail broad, and,with the wings, more than usually rounded : it seems the an-nectant species between Agelaius and Leistes. Total length 8inches ; bill, base -^ ; front f^ ; wings 3^^; the first and secondquills graduated; tail, base nearly 4; tarsus f^; hind toe andclaw ^. 76. MoLOTHRUS brevirostris. Entirely black, slightly glossed with purple short, ^ inch long : wings little more than 4 inches. Inhabits Brazil. Mus. Nost. {fig. 54. c) Total length 7^ inches; bill from tlie base, ^^; from thenostrils I; wings 4fg; tail, beyond, l-^^; base 3; tarsus, al-most 1 ; middle toe f^; hind toe ^^. In size, and somewhatin colour, resembling Scot, scriceus; but the bill is considerablyshorter and thicker ; the tarsi and toes are shorter in length,yet stronger in structure: bill and feet dark brown : wingsbrownish. Female entirely brown, paler beneath, with the chinwhitish. 77. Ploceus cristatus. Black : crest, crown, ears, throat, and breast, wanting in the Inhabits Western Africa. Mus. Par. {fig. 5Q, h)Total length €\ inches; bill, from the gape °^ \ ditfofront 7o ; wings 3-^; tail, beyond, 1^; tarsus about j|; hind X 306 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER toe and claw ^. This is the JMallmbus cristatus of Vieillot,who has mistaken the next species for the female: both sexesare in the Paris Museum. The first quill is nearly half aslong as the second : the black colour is inclined to brown :the front and lores are black ; which colour spreads round theeye, and forms a line at the base of the under mandible, andthe tip of the chin : claws fully curved. 78. Ploceus ruhricollis. Black : crown of the head, and upper part of theneck, crimson. Ois. Chant, pi. 43. M. Vieillot describes this as the female of the above, andrefers to a specimen in his own collection : the sizes, we maytherefore presume, are the same, yet I have never seen this. 79. Ploceus niger. Entirely sooty black : wings and tail tinged with brown. The f
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