34. LAMPR0C0LIU8. 175 



"The female is about 2 or 3 inches smaUer than the male 

 and a little less brilliant in colour. The metallic lustre in the 

 plumage of the young bird begins at the tips of the feath<^rs on the 

 back, the breast and abdomen being greyish brown ; the upijer side 

 being nearly finished, the feathers of the throat and breast begin to 

 change but not in the same way as those on the back. These feathers 

 change from the base up to the tip." (Dohm.) 



Hub. Princes Island, W. Africa, to which locality, in my opinion, 

 It IS confined, though it has been stated to occur in Senegambia. 

 a. Ad. St. [Princes Island.] Masseua Coll. 



o / 7 . . , ^'•'"'^' ^■'^'''"^ (^'■- ^'^^'■")- Sharpe Coll. 



c. 2 ad. ; d. Ad. sk. Prmces Island. Dr. Dohrn TCI 



e,f. Ad. sk. Prmces Island (I)r. Dohrn). Shelley Coll. 



5. Lamprocolius purpureus. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



? Blue and Grueu Daw, Edwards, Gleanings, vii. p. 23(3 (1820) 

 ^^^'IV^ "ol'^tji" Royaiime de Juida, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois.in. p. 373 



(17/0) ; Dauhent. PI. E71I. iv. pi. 540. 

 Tardus purpureus, P. L. S. Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 143 (1776) 

 (jilded Ihrush, Lath. Gen. St/n. ii. pt. 1, p. 57 (1783) 

 Turdus juidas, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 31 (1783). 

 Turdus auratus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 819 (1788) ' 

 ? Le Couigniop, Levaill Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 103, pi. 90 (1800) ; Simdev. 



Crit. cm Levatll. p. 34 (1857). 

 Turdus splendeus. Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. ,30 pi 71 (1815) 

 Lamprotornis niteus {7iec L.), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 18 (1823) 

 Lamprotorms lucida, Novdm. in Ennans Reis. p. 8, Taf 3 fio- 2 



(1835). ^ ' • • o- 



Lamprotornis ptilonorhynchus. Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 140 ( 1837) • 

 Allen 4- Thompson, Ed-ped. Niger, ii. p. 221 (1848) 



Juida aurataG;Y/y^G^e;i. B. ii. p. .320 (1846); Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. i/0 (18b/) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 24, no. 6328 (1870) 



J uiaa ptilonorhynchus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 327 (1846) 



Juida lucida, Gray, I.e. p. 327 (1846). 



Lamprocolius ptilonorhvncluis, Bp. Consp. 1. p 415 (1850) 



Laniprocoliua auratus, Bp Camp. i. p. 415 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 



/H lH/0 P 48.3; z. . Cat. Afr. B. p. 55 (1871) ; V/4 .^i?„k' 

 ley Ibis, 18/2, p. 289; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 66 ; Hartl. Ahhandl. 

 nat. J er. Bremen, IV. p. 58 (1874^ ; Sharpe, Joarn. Linn. Soc., Zool. 

 xvii. p. 42/ (1884) ; Hartert, J.f. O. 188(5, p. 586. 

 Lamprotornis amethystinus, Beuyl. J.f. O. 1863, p. 20; id. J.f. O. 



Lamprocolius auratus orientalis, Heuffl. J.f O. 1869, p. 7 • id. Orn 



N.O.-Afr 1. p. 516 (1870), iv. App. p. csxvi (1871) 

 Jmda amethystma. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 24, no. 6345 (1870) 

 Lamprocolius auratus, var. amethystinus, Hartl. Abhandl. nat ' Ver 

 Bremen, iv. p. 59 (1874). 



Lamprocolius amethystinus, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. 



p. l(Jo (lb8I). 

 Lamprocolius purpureus, Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 555. 



^*/«/^ General colour above oil-green; lower back, rumi), and 

 upper tail-covcrte rich purplish blue, some of the latter inclining to 



