37. 8PEE0. 187 



groy ; under surface of body dingy greyish brown, with a gloss of 

 metallic green hero and there, all the feathers longitudinally centred 

 with white, giving a distinct striped appearance ; lower abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts creamy white, as well as the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries : "bill and feet black; iris white" 

 {J. Spel-e). Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5-85, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 1-5. {Mus. E. Lort Fldllips.) 

 Hah. Somali-Land. 



37. SPREO. ^ 



Spreo, Less. Traite, p. 406 (1831) g. bicolor. 



Notauges, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 1<J8 (1850) ...'.'...'." s! bicolor! 



Rancje. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat bronzy brown, not metallic ; abdomen and 



under tail-coverts white or creamy butf. 

 a'. Size much larger ; breast brown like the throat 



and flanks ; secondaries brown hiculor, p. 187. 



v. Size much smaller; breast and abdomen both 



white ; inner secondaries metallic green .... Jischeri, p. 18!). 



b. Throat metallic green or blue ; belly chestnut. 

 <•!. Under tail-coverts white, across the chest a 



white baud ; under wing-coverts white siqwrhus, p. 189. 



(T . Under tail-coverts chestnut. 



a" . Back purplish blue ; wing-coverts with 

 velvety-black spots ; head purplish blue as 

 well as the throat ; under wing-coverts 

 tawny or chestnut. 

 a!" . Outer edge of wing green, breast fawn- 

 coloured hildebrandti, p. 190. 



b'". Outer edge of wing purple, breast entirely 



chestnut shelkyi, p. 190. 



b" . Back green hke the throat and breast; no 

 velvety-black spots on the wing-coverts ; 

 head bronzy brown puhJier, p. 191. 



1. Spreo bicolor. 



Ue Merle brun du Cap de Bonne Esperauce, Montb. Hist. Nat Ois 

 iii. p. 378 (1775). 



White-rumped Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. G4 (1783). 



Turdus bicolor, Gin. S. H. i. p. 385 (1788). 



Le Spr(5o, Levaill Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 155, pi. 88 (1800) ; Sumkt). Crit. 

 um Levaill. p. 33 (1857). 



Sturnus bicolor, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 311 (1800). 



Lamprotornis bicolor, Licht. Verz. Duubl. p. 18 (1823). 



Lamprotornis albiventris. Swains. An. in Menay. p. 297 (1837). 



Spreo bicolor, Less. Traite, p. 407 (1831) ; Lp. Vonsp. i. p. 416 

 (1850) ; Gurnexj in Anderss. B. Bum. Ld. p. 101 (1872)- Lutlvr 

 Feilden, i^f Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 256 ; ILdub S,- Von PeL Beitr. 

 Orn. Siidafr. p. 112 (1882) ; Sharpe, cd. LayarcFs B. S. Afr 

 pp. 429, 846 (1884) ; Symonds, Lbis, 1887, p. 331. 



