4. Muscicapa proper, Cuv.
The whole bird of a dark gray colour, the throat and belly are tinged
with blue, the wings are very dark, and the under pens of the tail are
tipped with white. It is the size of an English blackbird.
Turdus.
This bird is like the common thrush, but there are a few hairs at the
base of the beak, the fissure of which extends under the eye.
Gracula.
The martin of the Gambia has a very dark green back, belly, wings, and
tail; a grey head, a white patch at the bottom of the back, and an ash-
coloured throat.
Alauda Africana, Gmel.
Pyrgita, Cuv.
The head and belly are black ; the throat, breast, and tail, of a brilliant
scarlet; the wings brown. It is the size of a tit-mouse.
Cocothraustes, Cuv.
Upper mandible yellow ; lower mandible scarlet. The head is of a
dark ash-colour; the back and wings are pale brown; the upper feathers
of the tail crimson; the under feathers brown. Throat, breast, and
belly, of a pale-ash colour, lower part of the latter tinged with scarlet.
A brilliant orange patch under each eye. Length 4 inches.
Icterus.
Head and throat, yellow ; tinged with brow n; back brown; belly ash
coloured; wings brown, edged with yellow ; tail the same as the
wings.
1. Colaris, Cuv.
Head, back, wings, and tail, of a pale brown; belly ash-cóloured,
tinged with yellow.
Promerops, Brisson.
The whole bird of a dark-green colour, with a brilliant metallic lustre,
except the belly, which is black, and the throat, which is mottled with
brown. The under pens of the wings and tail have each a broad irregular
band of white near the tipfe^ legs ’red. The plumage of this bird
approaches it to the Colibris, but its beak is not sufficiently arched for
it to belong to that,genus.
I . Nectarinia, Illig; .
The head, back, wings, and tail, are of an ashy brown ; the belly white ;
the throat light brown ; and the beak yellow.
2. Nectarinia.
The head violet and azure ; the throat, belly, and tail, azure, tinged with
violet;/ the wings and back are o f a dark yellow-green. The whole
bird has a brilliant metallic lustre.
Colibris, Cuv. Trochilus, Lacépède.
The head of a brilliant metallic-green, and a patch of the same colour
underneath the base of the beak. Throat and breast scarlet, mottled
with a dark metallic green; back and belly dark brown; tail and
wings light brown.
P Alcedo, Lin.
The throat, breast, and belly, are of a dazzling white ; the wings are
speckled with green and brown ; the crest, head, and back, are green,
speckled with white. A white band passes3 from thè nostril to behind
the eye. The under pens of the wings are white, with dark-green bands.
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