480 



XROGONID^. 



bill appears to be always dark horn, becoming orange-yellow 

 towards the tip of the lower mandible ; feet dark flesh. Total 

 length 11-5 inches, wing 4-9, tail 6-4, tarsus 0-6. 



The female is not known. 



llah. W. Africa : Fantee to the Interior of the Calabar Eiver. 



(I, b. (S ad. sk. Fantee (Aubinn). Sharpe Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



c. c? ad. sk. Fantee ( Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



d. (f ad. sk. Denkera, Oct. Gould Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. (ex Calabar R. Dr. .\. Smith [C.]. 

 spirit specimen). 



3. Hapaloderma vittatum. (Plate XVI.) 

 Hapaloderma vittatum, Shelh-y, P. Z. 8. 1882, p. 306, 1889, p. 3o9. 



Adult male. Lores and throat black ; top of the head, feathered 

 part of cheeks, and ear-coverts very dark olive-green ; back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts bronze-green, with bluish-green reflexions ; 

 throat shading into a bronze band, succeeded in turn by narrow 

 purple-blue and dark green bands shading into one another and 

 together clothing the chest ; breast and rest of underparts blood- 

 red ; wings black ; quills with white bases, primaries margined on 

 the outer web \\ith white, greater primary-coverts black ; least 

 wing-coverts black, widely margined with green ; rest of wing- 

 coverts and secondaries black, with narrow distinct wavy bars of 

 white, some of the median coverts narrowly edged with green ; 

 three middle pairs of tail-feathers blackish glossed with purplish 

 blue, three outer pairs with the basal part black glossed with 

 purple, and terminal portion white, with narrow bars of black 

 glossed with purple across both webs : bill yellow, much smaller 

 than in H. narina ; " feet pale flesh ; iris crimson-brown, naked 

 spot in front of eyes yellow"' {F. J. Jaclcson). Total length 11 

 inches, wing 5, tail 7, tarsus 0*6. 



A third adult male specimen obtained by ilr. F. J. Jackson at 

 Kikuyu comidetes, as far as we are aware, all the specimens known. 



The female is unknown. 



Hab. East Africa : Mamboio, Kilimanjaro, and Kikuyu Country 

 {Jacl'son). 



a. (5 ad. sk. Mainboio (Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 b r{ ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, Aug. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



[P.]. 



7. HARPACTES. _, 



Type. 



Ilarpactes, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 337 (183; ) H. malabaricus. 



Ilapalurus, Reich. At: Si/st. Nat. pi. 88 (18o0) [H. diardi.] 



Duvaucelius, Bonap. Coiigp. Vol. Zi/t/. p. 14 (1854) . . II. rutilus. 



Pyrotogon. id. I. c II- ardciis. 



Oreskios, id. I. c il. gouldi. 



Orescius, Cal>. ^- Heine, 3Iiis. Rein. iv. p. 101 (1863). . H. gouldi. 



