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Genus LAMPROCOLIUS. 



Sundcvall, K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 1835, p. 104. 



Lamprocolius purpureus. 



Turdus iturpureus, P. L. S. Miiller, S, N. Suppl. p. 143 (1770). 

 Lamprocolius purpureus (MuU.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 175, pi. viii. fig. 1 (1890). 



The Pukple-headed Glossy Starling. 



Hah. West Africa from Senegambia to Gaboon, extending to 

 Equatorial Africa. 



102. Sternum, with sboulder- girdle. S. S. 2154. Purchased. 



Genus HETERALOCHA*. 



Cabanis, Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 218 (1850). 



A. Mandible curved, with no median articulation. 



B. A great backward prolongation of the angular. 



Heteralocha acutirostris, 



Neomorplui acvhrustris, Gould, P. Z. S. lb3G, p. 144. 

 Neomorpha gouldii, Eyton, Osteol. Av. p. 150, pi. ix. f. 

 Heteralocha acutirostris (Gould), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 143 (1877); BuUer, B. New Zealand, 2nd cd. p. 7, pi. 2 



(1888). 

 Heteralocha gouMi, Meyer, Abhild. Yogel-Skel. pi. xlvii. 



The Htjia. 



Hah. New Zealand (North Inland). 



103. Skull of female bird. From Port Nicholson, New Zealand. 



0. C. 1516 A. Freaented hy Sir Everard Home, Bart. 



104. "Wing-bones of above specimen. 



105. Leg-bones of above specimen. 



* The anatomy of Heteraloc/ta is described by Garrod in the P. Z. S. 1872, 

 pp. G4:J-G47. Cf. also Foibe?, Ibi.-^, l'^8L p. 20. 



