BCOPTELrS. 



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rectrices and the rest of the tail, together with the wiugs, steel-blue ; 

 middle and lesser wing-coverts reddish-copper ; head and throat 

 bufif; breast and anterior portion of the abdomen glossy green like 

 the back, lower abdomen and under tail-coverts black faintly tinged 

 with bronze ; bill red ; feet yellowish hazel. Total length about 

 14*5 inches, wing 5'1, tail 8'2, bill 2, tarsus 0'9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with a shorter, stouter, 

 straighter bill. 



Young. Bin black, the head and throat covered with dusky-black 

 feathers, which are gradually replaced by the buff feathers of the 

 adult. 



Hab. Forest-districts of the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Fantee. Purchased. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Fantee (H. T. Vssher). Sharpe Coll. 



c. Imm. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzv, Esq. [P.]. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 

 /. Imm. sk. Wasa Province, Julv {H. F. Sharpe Coll. 



Blissett). 

 g. Ad. sk. Mampon, Aug. {H. F. B. ). Shelley Coll. 



4. Irrisor jacksoni. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 

 Irrisor jacksoni, Sharpe, Ann. 8/- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, vi. p. 503, 



Adult male. Similar to that of /. hollei, but with the glossy-green 

 of the back rather brighter, that of the breast rather more bronzy ; 

 head and throat nearly white ; middle and lesser wing-coverts steel- 

 blue untinged with bronzy-purple ; central rectrices bluer, less 

 purple : bill, lores, and circumocular region coral-red ; feet yellowish 

 red; iris orange. Total length about 14 inches, wing 5'4, tail 8'5, 

 bill 1'75, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with a shorter, rather 

 straighter bill. The glossy green of the sides of the neck extends to 

 the posterior margin of the orbit. 



Hab. Central East Africa, forests of Mount Elgon. 



2. SCOPTELUS. 



Type. 

 Scoptelus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hem. ii. p. 129 (1860) .... S. notatus. 



Uanije. Western and North-eastern Afi'ica. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and neck steel-blue ; wings with a white 



median band. 



a . Tail spotless aterrimus, p. 22. 



b'. Outermost rectrix on either .side with a .sub- 

 terminal white baud, sometimes divided 

 into two spots Jiofatus, p. 22. 



b. Head and neck chestnut, wiugs uubauded .... castaneiccps, p. 23, 



