172 STXIEXID,^. 



f. Throat reddisli purple. 



e' . Back oil-green; head reddish purple ; breast 

 and abdomen oil-green ; tail blue-black, 

 ■with very slight bronzy gloss on the 



margins purpureiceps, p. 184. 



f. Back brilliant steel-blue ; head the same, 

 reddish purple on the ?ides of the face ; 

 breast and abdomen steel-blue cupreicaudns, p. 184. 



1. Lamprocolius splendidus. (Plate VII. fig. 4.) 



Merle vert d' Angola, Daubent. PI. EnJ. iv. pi. 561. 



Shining Thrush, var. A, Lath. Gen. Si/ii. ii. pt. i. p. 56 (1783). 



Tardus splendidus, Jionn. et Vieill. Enc. Mcth. ii. p. 653 (1823). 



Juida luxuosa, Less, tcsfe Hartl. 



Laniprotornis chrysotis, Sioains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 143, pi. 6 (1837). 



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



Lamprocolius chrvsotis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 415 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. 



mill. i. p. 199 (1859). 

 Lamprocolius splendidus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 117 (1857, pt.) ; 



id. J.f. 0. 1859, p. 14 ; Shariu; Cat. Afr. B. p. 55 (1871) ; Hartl. 



Alhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 54 (1874) ; Itochebr. Faim. 



Setm/., Ois. p. 229 (1884). 

 Juida splendida, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 24, no. 6329 (1870). 



Adult. Brilliant metallic golden-green, the centre of the back 

 steel-blue, as also the scapulars, which have a subterminal spot of 

 velvety black; lesser •wing-coverts steel-green ; median and greater 

 coverts oil-green with a subterminal spot of black, the feathers 

 bluish at their ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and qnills steel- 

 blue, shaded with green externally ; secondaries oil-green, steel-blue 

 at the ends, preceded by a broad median band of velvety black ; 

 tail-feathers velvety black, shaded with purple near the base, with 

 a broad tip of steel-green washed with blue ; head golden-green like 

 the mantle ; lores velvety black ; sides of face metallic steel-blue, 

 the ear-coverts frizzled ; behind the latter a spot of coppery or 

 golden bronze ; throat and breast metallic purplish blue, the breast 

 reddish purple, the abdomen and the flanks purplish blue ; lower 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts metallic steel-green ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries purplish blue; quills below black. Total 

 length 10 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 5-8, tail 4-2, tarsus I'l. 



Younr/. All the colours of the upper surface more dingy and less 

 metallic than the adults, the subterminal velvety black spots wanting ; 

 forehead, lores, and under surface of body brown, darker and more 

 dusky on the abdomen, which with the flanks has a few metallic- 

 green feathers. 



Bah. West Africa, throughout the Senegambian region. 



a. Ad. ; b. Juv. sk. West Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Sharpe Coll. 



e,/. Ad. .sk. River Gambia. Shelley Coll. 



