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Described as belonging to the group of St. vulgaris, humii, and jiolturatskyi, 

 as having ho bronze colour on the sides and wings ; the neck and head, chin, 

 throat, and neck green, ear-coverts and underside purple ; wings and shoulders 

 purple, on the wings with strong, on the shoulders with a faint green gloss. 

 Back green, rump violet. 



Seems to be, from the description, a race not unlike poltaraiskyi, but ^^'ith 

 the head green. 



Stumus unicolor Temm. 



Formerly believed to occur in the Caucasus and in India, but these errors 

 were already discredited by Sliarpe and others. Inhabits Spain northwards to 

 the utmost north-west, Portugal, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, also Marocco, Algeria, 

 and Tunisia, and is resident, not migratory, though, according to Tristram, a 

 few individuals associate themselves with the great flocks of European ;S'. vvl- 

 gdris which winter in Algeria in quest of the ripe dates. While 8. unicolor is 

 common in many places of Marocco and Tunisia, one can hardly say this of 

 Algeria. Loche and others mention as locaUties the province of Constantine, 

 and the former had a specimen from Lac Halloulah near Alger, which has been 

 drained and entirely disappeared. Tristram's collection contains only a pair 

 from Alger and one each from Djelfa and Laghouat. Lord Rothschild and I 

 have only seen a single one near Oran, and found it breeding in the old Tere- 

 binth trees of the " dayats " between Ghardaia and Laghouat. There are 

 doubtless a good many other breeding places in Algeria, but we found it absent 

 from many eminently favourable places, such as Tlemcen, Hammam Meskoutine, 

 with their many old trees full of holes, from the vast ruins of Lamtese and 

 Timgad, and from rocks and chffs, on which they nest on the Maroccan coasts 

 at the northern Cap Blanco. Spatz says it breeds near Lac Fetzara, but we did 

 not sec it there, nor did Zedlitz find it, so this may perhaps be a mistake. 



