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ALCEDINID,?:. 



Adult male. General colour above rich ultramarine-blue ; wing- 

 coverts black, with a spot of deep blue at the end ; quills and tail 

 black, washed externally with blue ; crown black, barred with blue ; 

 narrowing towards the hind neck, which has a collar of orange- 

 rufous, tinged with lilac ; lores and a broad ej'ebrow, sides of face, 

 cheeks, and under surface of bodj- orange-rufous, washed with lilac 

 on the sides of the face and sides of neck ; on the latter a streak of 

 buffy white ; throat pure white ; under wing-coverts orange like the 

 breast ; quills dusky blackish below, dull rufous along the inner 

 web : " bill and feet coral-red ; iris dusky brown " (ITeuglin). 

 Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 1-9, tail 0'9, tarsus 0'3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the colours scarcely so 

 bright. Total length 47 inches, wing 2-05. 



Youncj. Similar to the adults, but distinguished by the black bill, 

 and the colour of the back, which is spangled with bright cobalt 

 edges to the feathers ; the bars on the head and the spots on the 

 wing-coverts also bright cobalt. 



Hub. AVest Africa from Angola to Senegambia, throughout the 

 Congo basin to K^iam-Niam and Equatorial Africa, thence to Abys- 

 sinia and Bogos. 



a. <S ad. sk. River Quanza, Angola, May {J. 



J. Mfmteiro). 



b. Ad. sk. River Quanza. 



c. Ad. sk. River Congo. 



d. c? ad. sk. Landana, R. Congo (L. Petit). 



e. 2 ad. sk. Coude, R. Congo (i. Petit). 



f. Ad. sk. Gaboon {A. Marche). 



g. Ad. sk. Gaboon {Shnrpe Coll.). 



h. Ad. sk. Cameroons (A. Crqssley). 



i, k. Ad. sk. Cameroons (Sharpe Coll.). 

 l-n. Ad. sk. Abeokuta. 



0. Ad. sk. River Volta (Governor Ussher). 



]>, q. Ad. et Fantee. 



juv. sk. 

 r. Imm.sk. Fantee {Gorernor U.'^sJier). 

 s. (S ad. sk. Connor's Hill, Cape Coast, March 



7 {G. E. S.). 

 t, u. 2 ^*l- sk. Cape Coast Castle, Jan., March 



(T.K Buckley). 

 V. Juv. .sk. Gommeudah, J une (H.F.Blissett). 



to. Ad. sk. Ashanti. 



X. $ ad. sk. Senegal {Sharps Coll.). 

 y. Juv. sk. Semmio, Niam-Niatn, May. 



z. $ ^d. sk. Wadelai, July 16. 

 «'. S ad. sk. Kokai, Lebka Vallev, Bogos, 



Aug. 9. 

 b' , c. (S 2 «id. Bogos Land, July, Aug. ( W. 



Jesse). 

 d\ 6 ad. sk. Bi'jook, Julv 15 ( W. J.), 

 e. d ad. sk. Waliko, July 31 ( JF. J.). 



Esq. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley CoU. 

 Riocour Coll. 



(A. 7iutans, V.) 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Slielle'v Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll 

 F. Nicholson, 



[P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sliarpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Slielley Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 F. BohudorftTC^ 

 Eniin Pasha [P.].' 

 AV. T. Blauford, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Salviu-Godnian Coll. 



