170 STURNID^. 



coverts, and quills black with bronzj- purplish edgings, greener 

 near the edge of the wing ; primaries white for more than half the 

 basal portion, the enter ones externally chestnut ; tail-feathers 

 black with purplish margins ; crown of head, sides of face, and 

 under surface of body glossy steel-black, the throat decidedly 

 greener ; under wing-coverts black, with glossy margins ; quills 

 below blackish, creamy buff towards the base : " bill, feet, and legs 

 black; iris bright yellow" {C.J. Andersson); " iris saffron-yellow" 

 {Anchieta). Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5-3, 

 tail 4'05, tarsus l"i5. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. Daniara Land. Capt. Alexander [0.]. 



b. Imm. sk. Daniara Land {C. J. Andersson). Shelley Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Damara Laud (C. /. ^4.). Sharpe Coll. 



d. S imm. sk. Otjimbinque, June 29, 1863 Sharpe Coll. 



( C. J. A.). 



e. Imm. sk. Otjimbinque, Sept. 1, 1863 Tweeddale Coll. 



(C.J. A.). 



f. Ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



34. LAMPROCOLIUS*. 



Type. 



Lamprocolius, Sundeo. K. Vet.-Akad. Ilandl. Stockh. 



1835, p. 104 L. phrenicopteras. 



Eange. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail velvety black, with a blue or purple tip ; 

 velvety black spots on the wing-coverts; back 

 metallic gi-een or purple, but without golden 

 bronze ; a velvety black bar across the middle 

 of the secondaries. 

 «'. An auricular spot of coppery or golden bronze. 

 a". Throat bluish purple ; head of the same 



metallic green as the mantle splendidus, p. 172. 



b". Throat reddish purple ; head steel-blue or 

 steel-green, contrasting with the oil-green 



of the mantle glaueovirens, p. 173. 



b'. Auricular spot violet-blue, but with no cop- 

 pery-bronze or golden shade lessonii, p. 173. 



* Lamprocolius niteks. 



Le Merle vert d' Angola, Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 311, pi. xxx. fig. 2 (17C0), 



Turdus nitens, Lhm. Syst. Nat. p. 294 (1766). 



Juida nitens, Pucker. liev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. 247 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 24, no. 6337 (1870). 

 Lamprocolius nitens, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 118 (1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1859, 



p. 19; id. Abkandl. nat. Vcr. Bremen, iv. p. 66 (1874). 



Captain Shelley thinks that this ancient species is the South-African bird 

 described by Swainson as L. phanicopterus. If the locality, Angola, be correct, 

 it would probably supjjlant the name of L. bispendaris ; but there is so much 



