154 STTJENIDiE. 



remainder of wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, washed 

 with steel-green on the edges ; crown of head, entire hind neck, and 

 under surface of the body white ; the chin and upper throat, cheeks, 

 lores, sides of face, and all the region above and behind the eye, 

 including tlie greater pai't of the ear-coverts, bare, the skin corru- 

 gated ; lower tlanks, lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 black glossed with green, as also the under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ; a white feather near the edge of the under greater coverts : 

 quills black below. Total length 18 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 5"8, 

 tail 105, tarsus 1-4. 

 Hah. Sula Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Sula Islands. Leydeii Museun.'. 



25. LAMPROTORNIS *. 



Type. 



Laniprotornis, Temm. Man. fVOrn. i. p. Iv (1820) L. caudatus. 



Jidda, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 407 (IB.'jl) L. caudatus. 



Urauges, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 200 (1850) L. caudatus. 



Range. North-east, East, and West Africa. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. With the crown of head and throat broDzy, the 



former forming a distinct cap. 



a'. Flanks steel-blue, as also the under tail- 

 coverts ; back and breast glossy oil-greeu . . caudatus, p. 154. 



h'. Flanks violet or reddish purple, as well as 

 the luider tail-coverts ; hind neck and 

 mantle more or less violet and purple .... porplnjroiitenis ,yi.\^Q. 



b. With the crown and throat glossy steel-blue or 



violet, not bronzy. 

 c'. Throat and chest steel-blue ; head violet, 

 steel-blue on the forehead ; back steel- 

 blue with violet gloss mevesi, p. 157. 



iV . Throat and chest reddish purple ; crown 



and back reddish purplish or violet .... purpureas, p. 158. 



1. Lamprotornis caudatus. 



Le Merle vert a longue queue de Senegal, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 13, 

 pi. .31. fig. 1 (1760) ; Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 220. 



Le Vert Dore, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 3U9 (1775) ; Lcvaill. Ois. 

 d'Afr. ii. p. 146, pi. 87 (1800) ; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 33 

 (1857). 



* Sturnds splendens, Baud. 

 L'Eclatant, Lcvaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 142, pi. 85 (1800) ; Sundev. Crit. om 



Levaill. p. 33 (1857). 

 Sturnus splendens, Laud. Traite, ii. p. 309 (1800). 

 Tardus splendidus, Vieill. N. Dirt. d'Bisf. Nat. xx. p. 260 (1818). 

 Juida splendens, Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 23, uo. G327 (1870). 

 The type of Levaillant's figure still exists at Leyden, and is declared by 

 Sundeviill to be coujposed of the body of Quiscalus maerurus, with the sliortened 

 tail of the Common Magpie ! 



