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decidedly green ; under wing-coverts tawny buff, chestnut on the 

 quill-lining : " bill with the tip black, the basal part and the bare 

 skin round the eye crimson ; tarsi and feet rose-red ; iris palo 

 grey " (C. J. Andersson). Total length 11-5 inches, culmeu 0-55, 

 wing 3-6, tail 7, tarsus 0-7. 



The Cape birds are much the darkest and greenest ; the Transvaal 

 birds are decidedly paler everywhere, and show scarcely any green 

 on the ear-coverts; but the Damara birds are extremely pale and 

 have creamy white foreheads. The latter may be called Colhts lactei- 

 frons, but they seem to be approached by some of the Transvaal birds. 



Hab. Southern Africa, to Angola on the West Coast, and to the 

 Zambesi and Mozambique on the East. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. 



b. Ad. sk. South Africa. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape Colony {Btdler). 



e. Ad. sk. Table Mountain, July 22 (C. J. 



Andersson). 



f. Ad. sk. Swelleudam (Caii-no-oss). 



g. S ad. ; /*, i. Transvaal, July {T. E. Buckley). 

 $ ad. sk. 



Ti. Ad. sk. Marico, Oct. 



I. S ad. sk. Rustenberg, June 24 {T. Ay res), 



m. (S ad. sk. Mahalapsie River, near Shoshong, 



Aug. [F. Oates). 



n. Ad. sk. Makalaka country (Dr. Bradshaw). 



o, p. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 



q. S ad. sk. Mozambique, March. 



r, s. S ad. ; t, Damara-land, June to Aug. (C. J. 



u. 2 ad. sk. Andersson). 



V, IV. S ad. sk. Damara-land, July 25 (C J. A.). 



.V. 2 ad. sk. Rio Chimba, Nov. (/. Anchieta). 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 Earl of Derby [P.]. 

 J. Rocke, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



Gurnev Coll. 



W. E. & C. G. 



Oates, Esqrs.rp.]. 



Shelley Coll. 



Livingstone Ex- 

 pedition. 



Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



9. Colius macrurus. 



Le Coliou hup6 du S^n^gal, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 306, pi. xvi. fig. 3 

 (1760). 



Lanius macrourus^ Linn. Sysf. Nat. i. p. 134 (1766). 



Le Coliou huppe du St^n^gal, Daubent. PL Enl. v. pi. 282. fig. 2 ; 

 Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 404 (1778). 



Senegal Coly, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 101 (1783). 



Colius senegalensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 842 (1788) ; Vieill. Noui: Diet 

 d'Hist. Nat. vii. p. 378 (1817) ; id. Gal. Ois. p. 54, pi. 51 (1825) 

 Bii])]). Syst. Uebers. p. 79 (1845) ; Bj). Consp. i. p. 80 (1850) 

 JIartl. dm. W.-Afr. p. 155 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 260 

 Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 76 (1864) ; Fischer i)- Beichen. J. f. 0. 

 1879, p. 340 (Kipiui, Mambrui) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. qes. Orn. i 

 p. 363 (1884 ; Pangaui) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 123 (Pare). 



Colius macrourus, Gray i^- Mitch. Gen. B. ii. p. 393, pi. 96 (1848) 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus.'As. Soc. p. 70 (1849) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. 



