Green-Mantled Turaco Sitting on a Tree Limb

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“The Gallirex chlorochlyamys, Green-mantled Turaco, has a general coloration of metallic blue and green or greyish-brown, usually varied with crimson, ...all have erectile crests of different sizes. The bill is red, yellowish, or black, the feet are black. The sexes are alike, the younger are duller. The red feathers yield a peculiar pigment, containing copper, called Turacin, which is reducible to a powder; this is so soluble that the colour is washed away during the rain or in a bath, though regained subsequently.” A. H. Evans, 1900

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birds, tropical birds, fowl, Gallirex chlorochlyamys, Green-mantled Turaco, Green Turaco, large trace, Tauraco persa, Musophagidae, crested birds colorful birds

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Source

Evans, A. H. Birds (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1900)

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