49. ELMINIA. 363 



more broadly, the innermost almost entirely chestnut, with a shade 

 of dusky browu along the shaft on the outer web ; tail-feathers dull 

 chestnut, the two centre ones shaded with browu at the ends, all 

 the rest, excepting the outermost feather, dusky brown on the outer 

 web ; head all round, including sides of face and throat, black, with 

 a glossy purple gloss : remainder of under surface white, with a tinge 

 of chestnut on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and asil- 

 laries white, washed with chestnut ; quills ashy brown below, edged 

 with rufous along the inner webs ; " bill, skin round the eye, and 

 legs bluish lead-coloui- ; iris light hazel " {E. Newton). Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-0, wing 3-25, tail 3-75, tarsus 0*7. {Mus.A. 4" 

 E. Newton.) 



Hob. Sej'chelles. 



a. (S ad. sk. Seychelles. Paris Museum. 



b. cT ad. sk. Praslin, Seychelles. Paris Museum [P.]. 



49. ELMINIA. t, „ 



Type. 



Elminia, Bp. C. E. .x.xxviii. p. 652 (18o4) E. longicanda. 



Bill of Elminia longicanda. 

 Mange. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Sj^ecies. 



a. Outer tail-feathers duU brown, externally blue, with . • 



a whitish edging to the inner web. 



a'. Lores blue, like the head longicnuda, p. 363. 



b'. Lores black ; bill larger than in preceding .... teresita, p. 364. 



b. Outer tail-feathers white ; abdomen white, washed 



with gi'ey albicauda, p. 364. 



1. Elminia longicauda. 



Afi'ican Tody, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 91. 



Mjnagra longicauda, Swains. Monogr. Flyc. p. 210, pi. 25 ; Gray, Gen. 



'B. i. p. 261 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 328," no. 4933. 

 Muscipeta crenilea, Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 25. 

 Elminia longicauda, Bp. C. It. xxviii. p. 652 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 93 ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 168 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 383 ; id. 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 42, no. 400 ; Shelleji S; Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; 



Sharpe S)- Bouvier, Bull. Snc. Zool. France, i. p. 4.5 ; Reichen. J. f. 



O. 1877, p. 22 ; Bocaqe, Orn. Angola, p. 191 ; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 129. 



Adult. General colour above verditer-blue, blighter and rather 

 more silvery blue on the head ; quills blackish, externally edged with 

 verditer-blue, inclining to silvery blue on the lea.st wing-coverts, the 



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