180 STUKNID^. 



Adult (type of L. par j^liy runts). Similar to L. cMoropterus, and of 

 the same small size, but distinguished bj- the reddish-purple or 

 violet-blue base to the tail-feathers : " iris tiery red " (Emin) ; " iris 

 scarlet" (Ussher). Total length 7"7 inches, culmen 0'9, wing 5"1, 

 tail 2-55, tarsus 1-2. 



Young. Dingy brown above and below, with a slight gloss of the 

 metallic colours of the adult plumage ; " iris grey " (Beichenow). 



A female from Fatiko, in the Shelley Collection, has the wing 

 5*25 inches. It is rather less brightly coloured than the male, 



Hab. West Afric ; Equatorial Africa. 



«. Ad. sk. Acria {Hay 7ies), Shai-pe Coll. (Type of 



L. jmrjihyrums.) 



b. Ad. sk. West A.frica. Sbarpe Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Fatiko, Equatorial Africa, Shelley Coll. 



Jan. 12, 1881 {Emin Pasha). 



10. Lamprocolius phcenicopterus. 



Le Nabirop, LevaiU. Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 157, pi. 89 (1800) ; tSuudev. 



Crit. om LevaiU. p. 34 (1857). 

 Sturnus auratus, Uazid. Traite d'Orn. ii. p. 313 (1800, ncc Gtn.). 

 Lamprotornis aurata (wee G'm.), Licht. Verz. Dozibl. p. 18 (1823). 

 Laniprotornis phoenieopterus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 360 (1837) ; 



Sijmonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 331. 

 Juida pliojiiicoptera. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 326 (1840) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 171 (1867); \d. Ibis, 1869, p. 74; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 24, no. G330 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 398. 

 Lamprocolius plioenicopterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 416 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. 



Hein. Th. i. p. 199 (1850) ; Ilartl. J. f. 0. 1859, p. 18 ; id. Ibis, 



1862, p. 148 ; S/iarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 55 (1871) ; Ilartl. Abhandl. 



nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 67 (1874); Bucklcij, Ibis, 1874, p. 378; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 78 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 206 ; Butler, 



Feiklen, ^- Reid, Zoul. 1882, p. 256 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. 



4/r. pp. 425,846(1884). 

 Lamprocolius nitens, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 265. 



Adult. General colour above glossy oil-green, the mantle, upper 

 back, and scapulars slightly washed with steel-blue ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts glossy steel-blue ; wing-coverts glossy 

 oil-green, the median and greater coverts slightly shaded with steel- 

 green at the ends, before which is a velvety-black spot ; a shoulder- 

 patch of purple and coppery bronze on the inner lesser and median 

 coverts, the feathers being steel-blue slightly shaded with purple 

 and brilliant coppery bronze towards the ends ; primary-coverts 

 glossy steel-blue ; quills externally glossy oil-green, like the coverts, 

 slightly shaded at the ends with steel-blue, before which is a sub- 

 terminal shade of velvety black ; tail-feathers steel-blue, with a 

 gloss of steel-green, principally on the outer web ; crown of head 

 and hind neck glossy steel-blue ; lores dusky blackish, as also the 

 eyelid ; sides of face and ear-covcrts steel-blue, glossed with purple ; 

 cheeks steel-blue ; under surface of body glossy steel-green, the 

 throat somewhat inclining to steel-blue, the chin more oil-greeu ; 



