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f/.$ ad.sk. Oeor<re ( n. Ahnore). R. B. Sbai-pe, Esq. 



e. 5 ad. sk. Eland's Post(r. C. Atmore). R. R. Sharpe, Esq. 



/. cj ad. sk. Kiiifj'williamstown. Lieut. Anstey [P.J. 



g, h. 5 ad. sk. Peri bush, Kingwilliamstown. Lieut. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 



4, Graucalus azureus. 



Graucalus azureus, Cass. Pr. Phihul. Acad. 1851, p. 348. 

 Ceblepvris azurea, i?;). C. ^. xxxviii. p. 541 : Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 100 ; Cass. Pr. Phi/ad. Acad. 1859, p. 53. 

 Cyanogn-aucalus aziu'eus, Harfl. J. f. O. 18151, p. 170. 

 Campepliaga azurea, HaHl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 158 ; Gray, Hnnd-l. B. 



i. p. 340, no. 51.37; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 52 ; i'd. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 71 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 05 ; Sharpe et Boin-ier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, 1877, p. 479. 



Adult male. General colour above and below Prussian blue, 

 brighter and inclining to a shade of cobalt on the head and neck ; 

 the throat deep blue, with a blackish shade extending from the chin 

 downwards and overspreading the fore part of the checks ; a narrow 

 frontal line, lores, and feathers in front of the eye black ; wing- 

 coverts resembling the back, with dusky bases to the inner webs ; 

 quills and tail-feathers blackish, externally washed with dark 

 Prussian blue ; under wing-coverts like the breast ; quills ash) 

 below, with a lighter grey shade along the inner web. Total length 

 8-4 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 4-1, tail 3*5, tarsus OS. 



The bird I take to be the female is more of a verditer-blue, the 

 black being confined to the lores and region in front of the eye and 

 absent on the throat. I have not seen a dissected specimen. 



Hah. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Congo. 



a. S ad. sk. Caiuma River, Gaboon. M. Du Chaillu [C-l. 



b. [21 ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Du Chaillu [ C.]. 



c. [jiad. sk. Femtee (Gov. Us$Ji£r). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. [cJ] ad. sk. Enimill, Wassaw, March R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1872 (H. F. Blissett). 



e. [ cJ ] ad. sk. Chissambo, Rio Massabe, MM. Lucan and Petit 



Congo. [P.]. 



."). Graucalus axillaris. 



Graucalus axillaris, Sahad. Mus. Civic. Gciiov. vii. p. 925 (tyjie ex- 

 amined). 



Adult male (Mansinam, May 25, 1875, Bruljn: type of species"). 

 General colour above slaty grey, with a cast of lighter and more 

 bluish grej- ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median and 

 greater scries rather darker grey than the back : quills black, ex- 

 ternally edged with dark slaty grey; the secondaries outwardly 

 entirely dark grey like the greater wing-coverts ; tail black, with a 

 slight ashy shade on the centre feathers ; a narrow frontal line, 

 lores, and feathers in front of the eye black ; ear-coverts darker 

 grey than the head ; under surface of body slaty grey, the under 

 wing-coverts and axillarics barred across with white : quills ashv 



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