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ALCEDINID.E. 



the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner lining of the quills : 

 " upper mandible and under mandible black ; feet blackish ; iris 

 brown '' {E. Hnrtert). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 

 4-1, tail 2-85, tarsus 0'5. 



Adult female. Does not diflfer from the male in colour: "upper 

 mandible bright red, lower mandible jet-black ; feet black, soles 

 red; iris brown " {W. A. Forbes). Total length 9 inches, cidmen 

 1-85, wing 4-15, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-5. 



Youiuj. Similar to the adult, but duller in colour ; the head, how- 

 ever, washed with greenish blue, and the sides of the face, lower 

 throat, breast, and flanks thickly freckled with ashy cross lines, over 

 which a greenish lustre prevails : bill entirely black, save for a 

 reddish or yellowish tinge at the base and at the tip. 



Hah. West Africa from Senegambia to Beaguela, throughout the 

 Congo region to N.E. Africa. 



a. Ad. ; h. Juv. River Gambia. 



c. Juv. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. f. Ad. ; g. 

 Juv. sk.' 



h. Ad. sk. 

 i, k, I. Ad. sk. 

 m. Ad. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 0, p. Ad. sk. 

 q. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 

 s. (S ad. ; t, u. $ 

 ad. et iiiim. sk. 

 V, w. (S ad. sk. 



.V. Ad. sk. 



y. (5 ad. sk. 

 z. Ad. sk. 

 «'. Ad. sk. 



v. Ad. sk. 

 c'. 2 ad. sk. 

 d' , e . Ad. sk. 



/'. $ ad. sk. 

 g'. (S ad. sk. 



h . S ad. sk. 

 ^'. Ad. sk. 

 k'. Ad. sk. 

 I'. 2 ad. sk. 



m'. Skeleton. 



River Gambia. 

 Goree. 

 Sierra Leone. 



Ashantee. 



Fantee (S. T. Ussher). 



Fantee (H. T. Ussher). 



Ehuiua {H. F. BUssett). 



River Yolta {H. T. Ussher). 



Abeokuta. 



Lagos. 



Shonga, R. Niger ( W. A. F.). 



Rio del Rey, Cameroons {H. 



H. Johnston). 

 Cameroons Mountains, Jan. 20 



(A. Crossley). 

 Gaboon. 



Gaboon {Du Chaillu). 

 Kabiuda, Congo, Aug. 



Loauda(7'. Thomjison). 



Ambriz, Dec. 



River Quanza, April and May 



{J. J. Monteiro). 

 Rio Dande, July 10 {Sala). 

 Kateubella, Benguela, Nov. 30 



(Sala). 

 .Tuku, Niam Niam, May. 

 White Nile {Consul Peiherick). 

 Khartoum. 

 Maragaz, Bogos, July 29 ( Tf. 



Gaboon. 



Shai-pe Coll. 



Sir A. Moloney [P.]. 

 Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 

 Sir E. Sabine [P.J. 



Gould Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shai-pe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir A. Moloney [P.]. 

 Forbes Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Commander Sperling 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Monteiro CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



F. Bohndorff[C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Eyton Coll. 



