25. LAMPROTORNIS. 155 



Cass. 



Turdus caudatus, P. L. S. Miill. S. N. Siqij)l. p. 144 (1776) ; 



Proc. Phllad Acad. 1864, p. 251. 

 Glossy Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii.pt. i. p. 57 (1783). 

 Turdus longicaudus, Bodd. fabl. PI. Enl. p. 13 (1783). 

 Turdus reneu.s, Gm. Si/sf. Nat. i. p. 818 (1788). 

 Sturnus teneus, Daitd. Truite, ii. p. 310 (1800). 

 Corvus aureoviridis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 370, pi. 40 (1S09). 

 Lamprotornis fenea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. hi (1820) ; Riipp. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 75(1845); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr.^. 115(1857); 



id. J.f. O. 1859, p. 9; Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 331 ; Heiu^l. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 509 (1870), iv. Apj). p. cxxv (1871); 'Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 57; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 44 



(1875) ; liochebr. Faime Seneg., Ois. p. 228 (1884) ; Hartert, 



J.f. O. 1886, p. 586. 

 Juida senea, Less. Traite, p. 407 (1831) ; Graij, Gen. B. ii. p. 326 



(1846); Bp. Consp. i. p. 414 (1850); Laiptrd, B. S. Afr. p. 170 



(1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 23, no. 6322 (1870). 

 Lamprotornis loncricauda, Swains. B. TV. Afr. i. p. 148, pi. 7 (1837). 

 Lamprotornis (Juida) ajneus, Heiu/l. Syst. tfebers. p. 36 (1856). 

 Uraiiges ajneus, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 200 (1850). 

 Juida eytoni, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 368; Heuyl. J.f. 0. 1863, 



p. 22, 1864, p. 257 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 23, no. 6325 (1870). 



Adult. Mantle and back glossy oil-green ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts glossy steel-blue and purple, the feathers sub- 

 terminally spotted with velvety black ; scapular feathers glossy 

 green, with a subterminal mark of velvety black ; the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts similarly marked; greater coverts, bastard- 

 wing, primary -coverts, and quills glossy steel-green, with blue 

 reflexions, and having the appearance of being barred with black 

 under certain lights, the secondaries bluish near the ends ; tail- 

 feathers reddish purple with somewhat of a bronzy gloss, and more 

 or less shaded with violet reflexions, with blackish bars under 

 certain lights ; crown of head metallic bronze, as also the sides of 

 the face and throat, the latter slightly spangled with golden bronze, 

 the lower throat becoming deep steel-green with a subterminal 

 shade of blue, and shading off into oil-green on the fore neck and 

 breast ; the lower breast and abdomen purple with a coppery gloss, 

 the sides of the body glossed with blue ; thighs and abdomen steel- 

 blue with a slight violet shade ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 steel-green, slightly shaded with blue ; quills below black : " bill 

 and feet black ; iris sulphur-yellow " {Hartert). Total length 

 18 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 6-7, tail 11-5, tarsus Voo. 



The type of L. eytoni measures : — Total length 19-3 inches, culmen 

 0*95, wing 7"S, tail 13'5, tarsus l-o. 



Hartlaub and Yon Heugiin both assert that L. eytoni is nothing 

 but a variety of L. caudatus, and that both forms are found together, 

 and that intermediate specimens occur. I have not seen the 

 slightest sign of this in the scries examined by me ; but as both 

 forms occur in the same localities, it is best to unite them at present, 

 though the steel-blue plumage of L. eytoni is very different from 

 the oil- green plumage on the back and breast of L. caudatus. 



JJah. Western and North-eastern Africa. 



