186 STUENIDiE, 



with a subterminal spot of velvety black ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, externally glossed with steel-green or 

 steel-blue, the secondaries externally oil-green like the back ; tail- 

 feathers steel-blue, with greenish reflexions ; the tail strongly 

 graduated : head and neck glossy oil-green, including the sides of 

 the neck and under surface of the body ; lores velvety black ; ear- 

 covcrts dark steel-blue, the feathers rather frizzled ; sides of body 

 and flanks steel-blue, contrasting with the rest of the under surface ; 

 thighs also steel-blue ; under tail-coverts oil-green ; under wing- 

 eoverts and axillaries blackish, edged with steel-blue, the edge of 

 the wing greener ; quills below blackish, browner along the inner 

 edge : " bill and feet black ; iris orange " {J. Anchieta). Total 

 length 10 inches, culmeu 0-85, wing 5, tail 5, tarsus 1-05. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9"8 inches, 

 culmen 0'85, wing 4'9o, tail 3*7, tarsus 1*1. 



Toung. Brown, with an oil-green gloss above, steel-green on the 

 tail and wings, the coverts and quills with small whity-brown tips ; 

 under surface of body earthy brown, the throat and breast with 

 small mesial streaks of whity brown, all the feathers of the breast 

 and abdomen rather broadly edged with the latter colour : " iris 

 brownish " {Anchieta). 



Hah. Benguela. 



a. c? ad. ; h. Juv.sk. Caconda, Benguela, Jan. 18fi9 Sliarpe Coll. 



{J. Anchieta). 

 c, (I. S ? fid. sk. Caconda, Jan. 1882 {J. A.). Lisbon IMuseum. 



e. S ad. ;/,(/. Caconda, July, Aug., Nov. Shelley Coll. 



Imm. sk. {J. A.). 



2. Heteropsar albicapillus. 



Spreo albicapillus, Blijth, J. A. S. Bemj. xxiv. p. 301 (1855) ; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr., App. p. 276 (1857). 

 Notauges albicapillus, Hartl. J.f. O. 1859, p. 28 ; SpeJce, Ibis, 1860, 



p. 246, pi. vii. ; Hem/l. J. f. O. 1863, p. 23, 1869, p. 10 ; id. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. IX H-20 (1870) ■ Imsch <Sf Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 379 



(1870) ; Hartl. AbhatulL nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. p. 85 (1874) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 413. 

 Juida albicapilla, Gray, Handrl. B. ii. p. 25, no. 6355 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above light oily green, shading off into 

 steel-green on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the feathers of which 

 have whitish margins, as have also a few of the feathers of the hind 

 neck ; lesser wing-coverts creamy white, the lower series brown 

 with white shaft-lines; median and greater coverts bronzy or 

 greenish brown, rather broadly tipped with sandy white ; quills 

 blackish, externally steel-green, the secondaries dusky, externally 

 white, before which is a subterminal shade of green, the innermost 

 secondaries entirely light oily-green like the mantle ; tail-feathers 

 glossy steel-green, with dusky cross bars under certain lights ; 

 crown of head creamy white ; lores, feathers below the eye, and 

 fore part of cheeks blackish ; ear-coverts and hinder cheeks dusky 



