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a. Ad. sk. Senegal. Shelley Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Goree {Mus. Lisb.). Sharpe Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Fautee (7/. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. West Africa. Eytou Coll. 



(Type of L. eytoni.) 



f. Ad. sk. West Africa. " Sharpe Coll. 

 //, h. Ad. St. West At'iica. Purchased. 



2. Lamprotornis porphyropterus. 



Lamprotornis purpuroptera, Itiipp. Si/at. Uehers. pp. G4, 75, Taf. 25 



(1845); Hartl. J.f. O. 1859, p. 11; Heuffl. J.f. O. 1868, p. 2; 



ma?)/. Geol. Sf Zool. Ahjss. p. 397 (1870) ; Finsch, Trans. Z. S. 



vii. p. 258 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 56 (1871); Antin. !<( 



Salvud. Viag(j. Bo(/os, p. 127 ( 1873) ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, iv. p. l"(1875); Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 533 ; Fischer ^^ 



Reichen. J.f. O. 1878, p. 261; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 



vii. p. 106 (1881) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. f/es. Orn. i. p. 336 (1884) ; 



Rochebr. Faun. Seneg., Ois. jj. 229 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genov. (2) i. p.' 198 (1884). 

 Juida purpuroptera, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 326 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 23, no. 6324 (1870). 

 Lamprotornis reuuoides, Temm. MSS. in Mus. Lurjd., unde 

 Jnida asneoides, Bji. Consp. i. p. 415 (1850). 

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

 Urauges porphyropterus. Cab. I. c, note (1850). 

 Lamprotornis asneocephalus, Heugl. St/st. Uebers. p. 36 (1856). 

 Lamprotornis burchelli (nee Smith), Heuyl. Sijst, Uebers. p. 36 ; id. 



/./. 0.1867, p. 294. 

 Juida phffinicophaea, Pr. Wiirtt. Namm. 1857, p. 432 ; Heuyl. J. f. O. 



1867, p. 294. 

 Lamprotornis aaneus (iiec Gm.), Brehtn, Beis. Habesch, p. 216 



(1863). 

 Juida senea, Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 60 (1864). 

 Lamprotornis porphyropterus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 511 



(1870), iv. App. p. cxxv (1871) ; Fischer ^ Reichen. J.f. 0. 1879, 



p. 349. 



Adult male. Smaller than L. caudatus, and differing in its reddish- 

 purple flanks and under tail-coverts ; the mantle and hind neck 

 also more violet and reddish purple : " bill and feet black ; iris 

 sometimes pale yellow, sometimes whitish " (Benglin). Total length 

 14 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 6-8, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the colours rather duUer 

 and the size smaller. Total length 14 inches, culmen 0'9, wing6'6, 

 tail 8-5, tarsus 1-55. 



Young. Much duUer thau the adults, dusky blackish with only a 

 feeble gloss of the colours which distinguish the old birds, there 

 being scarcely any gloss whatever on the under surface of the 



There is a remarkable disparity in size in a number of specimens, 

 and these diiferences may perhaps not be altogether sexual, but 

 indicate the existence of a small tropical race. Unfortunately I 

 have not had a sufficient number of specimens to prove whether this 

 be so or not. The example from the Bari country has the wing only 



