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on the outer aspect of the 2;reater and primary-coverts and quills ; 

 primaries light baj', blackish brown at the ends, for about the 

 terminal third of the outer primaries ; tail-feathers black, glossed 

 with steel-green externally ; head all round ■ id entire under surface 

 of body, inchiding the under wing coverts, purplish-black, but not 

 so glossy as the upper surface : " bill and feet horny black ; iris 

 scarlet " {Heugliii). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1'2, wing 6*05, 

 tail 4-45, tarsus 1"15. 



Adult female. Much duller in colour than the male, and distin- 

 guished by its dark ashy grey head and throat ; the hind neck, sides 

 of neck, and lower throat also dark ashy grey, the feathers centred 

 with glossy purplish black. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-05, 

 wing 5-4, tail 3-9, tarsus 1-2. 



Ilah. The same as that of the genus. 



a,b. 6 2 ad. sk. Jericho, Jan. 11, 18G4 {H. B. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Tridram). 

 c, d. c? $ ad. sk. Ain Fesh Khali, Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



33. PYRRHOCHEIRA. 



Type. 

 Pyrrhocheira, Reichenh. Sr/xt. Av. pi. liii. fig. 15 (18-50) .... P. caffer. 

 Nabouroupus, Bp. Coll. Ddattre, p. b (1854) P. caffer. 



Range. Confined to South-west Africa. 



1. Pyrrhocheira caffer. 



Coracias caffra, Liym. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 159 (1766). 



Le Nabouroup, Levalll. Ois. d'Afr. li. p. 168, pi. 91 (1800) ; Stindev. 



Grit, om Levaill. p. 34 (1857). 

 Sturnus nabouroup, Baud. Traite, ii. p. 308 (1800). 

 Lamprotornis fulvipennis, Sicains. An. in Menaq. p. 298, fig. 49 



(18.37) : Chapm. Trav. S. Afr., App. p. 404 (1868). 

 Juida nabourop, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 327 (1846). 

 Spreo fulvipennis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 416 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 110(1857). 

 Amydrus nabouroup, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 201 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. 



O. 1859, p. 32. 

 Spreo nabouroup, Strickl. S,- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 149. 

 Nabouroupus fulvipennis, Bj). Notes Coll. Delattre, p. 8 (1854). 

 Aiuj'drus fulvipennis, Mont. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 93. 

 Juida fulvipennis, Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 34 (1857) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 173 (1867); id. Ibis, 1868, p. 246. 

 Juida caffra, Graij, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 25, no. 6356 (1870). 

 Amydrus caffer, Shai-pe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 55 (1871) ; Gurney in 



Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 162 (1872) ; Bocage, Orn. Amjola, 



p. 316 (1881) ; Shurpe, ed. Bayard's, B. S. Afr. pp. 430, 846 (1884) ; 



Souza, Jorn. Lish. xi. p. 1G6 (1887). 

 Pyrrhocheira caffra, Hartl. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 96 



(1874). 



Adult. General colour above glossy purplish black, upper tail- 

 coverts black with purplish margins ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like tho back : greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 



