182 sturnidjE. 



n. 2 ad. sk. Crocodile Eiver, Transvaal, W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Nov. 8, 1872 (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



0. cJ ad. sk. CiocodileRiver, Nov. 17, 1873 Shelley Coll. 

 {T. E. Buckkii). 



p. Ad. sk. Marico, Nov. 18, 187-3 {F. W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Oatcs). Esqrs. [P.]. 



a f{ Ad. sk. Tati, Oct. 11, 1873 (F. Oates). AV. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



r. Ad. ; s. Jiiv. Otjimbinque, Damara-Land, Sliarpe Coll. 

 sk. May, Aug. (C. J. Anderssun). 



t. Ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



u. Ad. sk. Capangombe (Anchieta). Sliarpe Coll. 



V. Ad. sk. Ambaca {Anchieta). Sharpe Coll. 



w. Ad. sk. Ambaca (Anchieta). Shelley Coll. 



.r. Ad. sk. Angola (Toulson). Shelley Coll. 



11. Lamprocolius melanogaster. 



Lamprotornis melanogaster, Swains. Anim. in Menat/. p. 297 (1837) ; 



Finsch, J.f. O. 1867, p. 247. 

 Juida melanoaaster, Ch-ai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 327 (1846) ; Gurnei/, Ibis, 



1862, p. 29"^ Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 173 (1867); Gray, Iland-l. B. 



ii. p. 224, no. 0339 (1870). 

 Lamprotornis porphvroplevron, Sundcv. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 



Stockh. 1850, p.' 100. 

 Lamprocolius coruscans, Bp. Consp. i. p. 115 (1850, ex Licht.); 



Licht.. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 53 (1854). 

 Lamprocolius melanogaster, Bj). Consp. i. p. 115 (1850) ; Haiti. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 119 (1857) ; Grill, Zoul. Anteckn. p. 37 (1859) ; 



Hartl. J. f. O. 1859, p. 22 ; id. Ibis, 1862, p. 148 ; Finsch ^ 



Hartl. Von. Ostafr. p. 381 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B.^.bb 



/I n'-l \ TT ..^1 "l 1,1. 77 J. jr,... T>..., ., :.. _ f.t /ICTJN. 



i. p. 335 (1884) ; Sharpe, ed. Lat/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 428 (1880). 

 Lamprocolius porphyroplevron, Licht. Komencl. Av. Berol. p. 53 



(1854). 

 Lamprotornis pm-puroptera (wee Ri'q^j.), Bianc. Spec. Zool. Moscanb., 



Aves, p. 322 (1865). 



Achdt male in ivinter jjlunictr/e. General colour above glossy purple 

 with a steel-blue gloss, the sides of ueck and hind neck glossy 

 green, this colour slightly overshading the upper mantle ; rump 

 and upi)cr tail-coverts more decidedly purple with a bronzy glos.s ; 

 lesser wing-coverts glossy purple ; median and greater coverts dark 

 steel-green with a slight blue lustre ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills purple externally, blackish on the inner web, the 

 secondaries steel-green with scarcely any blue lustre ; tail-feathers 

 black glossed with purple, more distinctly on the outer web ; crown 

 of head deep steel-blue ; lores velvety black, as also the eyelid ; 

 feathers round the eye and along the top of the ear-coverts glossy 

 purple, the remainder of the ear-coverts and cheeks steel-green, 

 glossed with blue on the former ; throat, fore neck, and breast 

 glossy steel-green ; lower breast purplish ; abdomen black, glossed 



