4. C0RACIA3. 25 



upper snrfaoe of body olive-green ; wing-covorts as in the adult, but 

 more mixed with reddish brown ; quills as in the adult, but the 

 inner secondaries more decided olive-green ; middle of back dull 

 reddish brown ; tail for the most part ultramarine, all the feathers 

 edged with olive-green, except the two middle ones, which are en- 

 tirely of this colour ; under surface of body dull greyish brown 

 becoming reddish on the flanks, all the white stripes very broad and 

 distinct and having a very slight greenish lustre. Total length 

 11-5 inches, culmcn 1-3, wing 7, tail 5-5, tarsus 0-8. 



The Scnegambian birds, true C. wfcvm, are somewhat different 

 from those from North-eastern Africa. They have a slio-ht 

 shade of greyish olive at the end of the feathers of the crown 

 which IS otherwise reddish. I have, however, not seen enough 

 specimens to enable me to judge whether these slight differenc^es 

 are constant, and the bird from the Niger will also require 

 comparison. 



Hab. North-eastern Africa to Shoa and Equatorial Africa, and 

 south to the Ulu country ; Senegambia and the Niger region on the 

 West Coast. 



«. Ad. St. N.E. Africa. Purchased 



b. cJ ad. sk. Near Undel Wells, Abyssinia, W. T. Blauford Esq 



April. rp 1 ' ^ 



e <S ad sk. Koomayli, March ( TV. Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



cl. V ad. sk. xAIaragaz, Bogos-Land, July Tweeddale Coll. 



( W. Jesse), 



e. 5 ad. sk. Kokai, Bogos, July. w. T. Blanford, Esq 



rpi ^ 



/. c^ ad. sk. Kokai, July ( W. Jesse). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



f ^^ / . ^'^^''^^ ^''■'''" ^^'^'''^- Shellev Coll. 



h. d ad. sk. Efat, Shoa, April (Sir W. C. India Museum. 



Hams). 



i. $ ad. sk. Alia Aniba, Feb. ( W. C. H.). India Museum. 



/;.? ad.sk Muggi, Oct. 28 (^mm P«sAa). Shelley Coll 



/. Ad sk River Gambia. SharpeColl.' 



m. Ad. sk. River Gambia {Sir A. Shelley Coll. 



3Ioloney). 



9. Coracias olivaceiceps *. 

 Coracias pilosa {^wc LcM.), Gurney, P. Z. S. 1804, p. 2 1868 n 461 • 



i.i^.^ ', ^ff-^'^'^r "°'! "^f ^^^ '^'■'"'' of ^- olivaceiceps has been attached 

 o the Sou h-Afr,can form of C. ncavia in the MSS. of the present volume of 

 the Catalogue.' In the meantime Mr. Dresser has described the specfes as 

 Gmosa„d,^ns and I should gladly have adopted h,s name if there h'ad been 

 any proof forthoo.mng of the occurrence of this Roller in Mozambique • but the 

 Coracias ncevia of Biancom s work has been shown by Drs. Fmsch aid Hartlaub 

 t^ be only C. caudata (Vog. Ostafr. p. 154). I therefore employ my ov"n 

 designation for the species until it is proved that the name ofZosaib^us 

 can be properly apj)lied to it. mubumoicus 



