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h. Tail velvety black, purplish blue at the ends, the 

 base glossed with coppery brouze ; back and 

 under surface nrolden bronze ; secondaries also 

 golden bronze externally, with no velvety bar. ignitus, p. 174. 



c. Tail metallic throughout, green or purple ; wing- 



coverts with velvety black spots ; back metal- 

 lic ; no velvety black bar on the secondaries, 

 which are metitllic like the back, and have 

 velvety black spots like the wing-coverts. 

 c . Head and throat brilliant reddish purple like 

 the rest of the under surface ; back green ; 

 lower back and rump purplish blue ; tail 



reddish purple jjurpiireus, p. 17-5 



d' . Head steel-blue or steel-gTeen ; throat green 

 or blue also. 

 c" . Tail green, not purple at base. 



a'". Abdomen and flanks steel-blue or piu?- 

 plish blue, contrasting with the greener 

 throat. 

 a*. Ear-coverts not forming a well-defined 

 spot, but their colour merging gra- 

 dually into the colour of the sides of 

 the neck ; shoulder-spot on the lesser 

 wing-coverts piu-plish blue with 

 more or less reddish purple, some- 

 times entirely of the latter colour 



with a coppery tinge chalyhanis, p. 170. 



6'. Ear-coverts always forming a distinct 

 spot ; shoulder-spot always reddish 

 purple glossed with coppery red. . . . S7jcohius, p. 178. 

 c^. Ear-coverts forming a distinct spot; 

 shoulder-spot always purplish blue, 

 never showing a violet or reddish- 

 purple tinge chloropterus, p. 178. 



b'" . Abdomen and flanks green like the 

 breast; shoulder-spot coppery red mixed 

 with purplish blue. 

 rf'. Larger: wing 5'85 inches; outer aspect 



of wings oily or golden-green jjkcenicoptenis, p. 180. 



e'. Smaller : wing 5'3o inches ; outer 



aspect of wings steel-green hispecularis, p. 181. 



d". Tail gi-een, with a distinct reddish-purple 



shade near the base chalcurus, p. 179. 



d. Tail black, with only a slight gloss of bronze or 



piu-ple externally. 

 e'. Throat dark steel-green ; abdomen black ; 

 sides dull bronzy ; head and back gTeen ; sca- 

 pulars, lower back, and rump purj^ile ; tail 

 black, slightly glossed with purple melanogaster, p. 182. 



doubt as to the proper identification of the species, that I do not employ the 

 name at all. 



Lamprocolius defilippii. 

 Lamprocolius defilippii, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, viii. p. 371 (1865) ; 

 id. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 68 ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bronen, iv p. 56. 

 (1874) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, ]). 3U8 (1881). 

 Juida defilippii. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 24, no. 6344 (1870). 

 A doubtful species, which I hare not been able to identify, 



