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violet ; lesser -wing-coverts bricrht steel-blue ; mcdiun and greater 

 coverts oil-green, with blue reflexions and a velvety-black spot at 

 the ends ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts steel-blue, externally 

 washed with oil-green and slightly fringed with black at the end ; 

 quills oil-green, inclining to steel-blue towards the ends, which are 

 friiig(?d with black ; tail-feathers deep blue, with a slight shade of 

 violet and purple, the centre feathers almost entirely reddish 

 pui'ple; crown of head beautiful reddish purple, slightly glossed 

 with steel-blue on the nape and hinder crown ; hind neck steel- 

 green, verging into the oil-green of the back ; lores velvety pui-plo ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, fore neck, and chest 

 reddish purple, gradually merging into the rich violet-blue of the 

 rest of the under surface ; abdomen, sides of body, and flanks 

 washed with reddish purple ; thighs entirely reddish purple ; under 

 tail-coverts deep blue ; under wing-coverts and axillaries purple ; 

 edge of wing rich blue ; quills below blackish ; bill and feet black : 

 "iris bright yellow" (Ussher) ; "iris fiery" (Heurjlin). Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5*85, tail 2'85, tarsus 1-35. 



Hub. West Africa from Senegambia to Gaboon, and occurring 

 again in Equatorial Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Shelley Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Sliarpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. 12, 1872 (G. E. S.). Shelley Coll. 

 <J, e. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. 27, 1872 ( T. E. Bucldey). Shellev Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Accra, March 1870 {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 

 (J, h. Ad. ; i. River Volta, Aug. 1870 {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



k. Imm. sk. River Volta, Aug. 1870 {H. T. U). Shelley Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Lokoja, Niger (jr. ^. i^.). Forbes Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Kuts'chugali, Niam Niam, Sept. 1 882. F. Bohndorff 



[C.]. 



n, 0. J ad. sk. Fatiko, March 1882 (Emm Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



p. 2 ad. sk. Wandi, Sept. 6, 1881 (Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



6. Lamprocolius chalybeus. 



Lamprotornis chalvbeus, Ehr. Si/mh. Phys. fol. v, pi. 10 (1828); 



Piipp. Neue Wirb., Vor/. p. 27,"Taf. xi. fig. 2 (18.35-40) ; id. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 75 (1845) ; Heitgl. Syst. Uebers. p. 'iG (Idot)) ; Pzicher. 



Rev. et May. de Zool. 1858, p. 250. 

 Lamprotornis nitens {nee L.), Hevyl. Syst. Uehers. p. 36 (185G). 

 Juida chalybea. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 327 (184(5); Iland-l. B.'n. 



p. 24, no' 63.32 (1870). 

 Lamprocolius nitens {yiec L.), Cab. Mut. Hein. Th. i. p. 198 



(1850) ; Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 01 (18()4). 

 Lamprocolius cvaniventris, Bh/th, J. A. S. IJeny. xxiv. p. 255 (1855) ; 



Hcrrsf. i^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 546 (1856). 

 Lamprocolius chalvbeus, Ilartl. J. f. O. 1859, p. 21 ; Henyl. J.f. O. 



1863, p. 22; Br'chn, Reis. Halcsch, p. 327 (1863) ; Ueiu/l. J. f. O. 



1869, p. 6; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 514 (1870), iv. Ap'p. p. 'cxxv 



(1871); Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 395 (1870); Finsch, 



Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 295 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 55 (1871) ; 



Antin. i!)- Salvad. Viayy. Buyos, p. 127 (1873); JIurtl. Ahhundl. 



