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thighs purplish blue ; under tail-coverts like the abdomen ; under 

 ■wing-coverts purplish and steel-blue ; edge of wing green ; axil- 

 laries like the breast ; quills below blackish. Total length 10'3 

 inches, culmen 1, wing 5*S5, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-45. 

 Hah. Cape Colany. 



a. Ad. St. South Africa. Hardwicke Bequest. 



h. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Cape Coleny {E, L. Lmjard). Shelley Coll. 

 /, g. Ad. sk. Eland's Post {T. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Port Elizabeth. Sharpe Coll. 



Subsp, a. Lamprocolius bispecularis. 



Spreo bispecularis, Stricld. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 149. 



Lamprocolius bispecularis, Hartl. J f. O. 1859, p. 19 ; Socage, Orn. 



Angola, p. 311 (1881); Souza, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 57. 

 Juida phoenicoptera, Garney, Ibis, 1860, p. 210. 

 Lamprocolius decoratus, Hartl. Ibis, 1862, p. 148.; id. Ahhandl. nat. 



Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 69 (1874). 

 Lamprocolius phrenicopterus, Gurney, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 7 ; Mont. 



P. Z. S. 1865, p. 92 ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 160 



(1872) ; Eeichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 26. 

 Lamprocolius uitens (nee L.), Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1867, pp. 138, 334. 

 Juida decorata, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 171 (1867) ; Gray, t. c. p. 24, 



no. 6343 (1870). 

 Jidda bispecularis, Gray, Haml-l. B. ii. p. 24, no. 6342 (1870). 



Adult male. Similar to L. plicenico2:)terus but decidedly smaller, 

 the wing measuring 4"9-5'35, and differing in the more steel-green 

 colour of the back and wings : " bill, legs, and toes more or less 

 black : iris bright reddish orange " (C. J. Andersson) ; " iris orange- 

 yellow" (J. Anchieta). 



This is nothing but a small race of L, phcenicopterns, and, as it 

 varies greatly in size, like that species, it is quite possible that the 

 two forms may be found to run completely into each other. Capt. 

 Shelley thinks that this is the Lamprocolius nitens (Linn.), founded 

 on " Le Merle vert d'Angola " of Brisson. It is so much a matter 

 of uncertainty, however, that I think, with Professor Bocage, that 

 this old name had better be dropped altogether. 



Hab. Interior of South Africa from Natal to the Transvaal, and 

 on the west coast to Damara Land, Benguela, and Angola. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. South Africa (Butler). Shelley Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. South Africa (U. L. Sharpe Coll. (Type of 



Layard). L. decoratus.) 



d. e,f. Ad. sk. Durban, Natal (T. L. Ayres). Shelley Coll. 

 (J, h, i. Ad. sk. Durban (Gordge). Shelley Coll. 



k. c? ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



/. c? ad. sk. Natal, May 22, 1873 (T. E. SheUey Coll. 



Buckleii). 

 m. $ ad. sk. Swaziland, July 23, 1876 (T. Shelley Coll. 



E. Buckley). 



