27. HTPOCH^EA. 309 



a. S ad. ; b,c. River Gambia. Sharpe Coll. 



? ad. sk. 



d. S ad sk. River Gambia. Shelley Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Dakar, Senegal (i. Lcujlaize). Tweeddale Coll. 

 /. <S imm. sk. West Africa. ]N[r. Pulman [P.]. 



2. HypochaBra amauropteryx. 



Hypoclicera uitens [iiec Gm.), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 322. 

 Amadina nitens (tiec Gm.), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 201 (1867). 

 Hypoclisera ultramarina (iiec Gm.), Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 213 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 64 (1871, pt.) ; Gurney in Anders. B. 



Dam. Ld. p. 175 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr, p. 4-57 



(1884, pt.). 

 PHypochsera ultramarina, Beichenb. Sinqv. p. 54, pi. xxii. figs. 190, 



101 (1861). 

 Hypocbpera chalybeata {nee Miill.), Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 207; 



"Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 339. 



Adult male. With a steel-green gloss like the preceding, but 

 altogether darker and appearing greenish black ; wings brown, 

 contrasting with the back. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-7, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. South Africa from the Transvaal to the Zambesi and Mo- 

 zambique, extending westwards to Ovampo-Land. 



a. (S ad. sk. Rustenberg, E. Transvaal. F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[C.]. 



b. cJ ad.sk. Rustenberg, Jan. 5 (IF. iwcai). SlieUey Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Zambesi. Dr. Bradsliaw [C.]. 



d. e. S ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi {Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedi- 



tion. 

 /. c? ad. sk. Mozambique. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



y. S ad. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Jan. Sbai-pe Coll. 



22, 1867 {C.J. Andersson). 



3. Hypochsera ultramarina. 



Outre-mer, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 56 (1778, e.v Bi-uce, Icon.). 

 Ultramarine Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 301 (1783). 

 Friugilla ultramarina, Gni. Syst. Nat. i. p. 027 (1788, e.v Lath.). 

 Amadina nitens {nee Gm.), Riipp. Neue Wirb., Voy. p. 101 (1835-40). 

 Pbilffiterus nitens, Strichl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 218 

 Hypocbpera ultramarina {nee Gm.), Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 175 



'(1850) ; Horsf. S> Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 513 (1856) ; 



Fischer, J. f. 'O. 1885, p. 135; Eeichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 70. 

 Fiingilla (Amadina) uitens, Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 (1856). 

 Hvpochjera nitens, Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 70 (1864) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 110; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 688 (1870); 



Salvin, Cat. Stricld. Coll. p. 247 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 



Genov. (2) i. p. 181 (1884). 

 Hypochsera nitens, var. ultramarina, Ilartl. Abhandl. nat.Ver. Bremen, 



viii. p. 202 (1883); Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 325 (1884). 

 Hypochffira mtens,Hartl. Abhandl. not. J'er.Bre7nen,\n\. p. 202(1883) 

 Hvpochffira cbalvbeata, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 338, pt. ; Salvad. Ann. 



'Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. p. 284 (1888). 



