168 STURNID.E. 



Amydrus nlbirostris, Blcuif. Gcol. if,- Zool. Ahi/ss. p. 401 (1870) ; 

 Fimch, Tran. Z. S. vii. p. 260 (1870) ; Sharpc, Cat. Afr. B. p. 54 

 (1871) 



Adult male. General colour above and below glossy purplish 

 blue, somewhat inclining to steel-blue on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts and on the lower breast, abdomen, and flanks ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, 

 primarj'- coverts, quills, and tail black, externally dull steel-green : 

 primaries chestnut, broadly tipped with black ; under wing-coverts 

 black glossed with steel-blue : " bill horny white ; feet blackish ; 

 iris chestnut " {Hevglin) ; " iris dark coppery red, with a darker 

 ring round the pupil" {W. T. Blcoiford). Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 6-3, tail 4-65, tarsus 1'25. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being duller in colour and 

 less glossy on the head ; sides of face, throat, and fore neck a little 

 washed with hoary grey. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 6-25, tail 4-45, tarsus 1-25. 



Ilab. North-eastern Africa. 



32. HAGIOPSAR. 



Range. Confined to the region of the Dead Sea in Palestine and 

 to the Peninsula of Sinai. 



1. Hagiopsar tristrami. 



Amydrus morio (nee L.), Hewjl. Si/st. Uehers. p. .371 (1856). 

 Amydrus tristrami, Sel. Ann. A'- Mac/. Nat. Hist. (.3) ii. p. 465 (1858) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, y. pi. 45 (185'j); Hartl. J. f. O. 1850, p. ,38; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 32; Chambers, Ibis, 1863, p. 476; Tristr. 



Ibis, 1864, p. 230, 1867, p. 366, 1868, p. 334 ; Ilem/l. J. f. O. 



1869, p. 13; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 525 (1870)', h.'App. 



p. cxxvi (1871) ; Wyatt, Ibis. 1870, p. 16 ; Hartl. Aldiandl. nat. 



Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 93 (1874) ; Tristr. Faun. Sf Flor. Palest. 



p. 74, pi. xi. (1884). 

 Sprco fulvipennis (nee Sw.), Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 173. 

 Amych-us nahouroup (nee Daud.), Ilewjl. J.f. 0. 1863, p. 23. 

 Juida tristrami, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 25, no. 6.359 (1870). 



Adidt male. Glossy purplish black, the wing-coverts and quills 

 black, externally purplish black, somewhat inclining to stcel-grcen 



