1. 1II0R0PU3, 451 



'"^^'I'h ^]'^x'^'^ P""'"'- <^ -*^'*^ ' '^hellei/, Ibis, 1875, p. U7 (8. AfV.), 1882, 

 p. ^4J (.Masliooua) ; Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 92 (1875) • 



l^^r'Sff/T^'*^' P-,^^^ ^^-^i'--)-^ Avrcs, Ibis, 1878, p. 40b; 

 l»o4, p. 222 (Ir.msvadl). 



'T?Sm PJ-f'-;i;'' ^C"""' ^/- ^''>^- -160 (1828) ; 5;,. Co;«^. i. p. 65 

 (i8o0) ; P^t. Jo,/, ^ovam, Vor/. p. 38 (180-1) (Cape). 

 Micropus caiiev Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 165; Hart.rf. Eat. Voaeh. Mm. 

 ^Senckenb. I). 119 (ISQl), y*-*. .«(5. 



Adtih. Tail deeply forked, lateral rectricos very acute. Head and 

 wings brown with a slight metallic gloss, tail darker ; back and 

 abdomen nearly pure black with a steel-blue gloss; chin and 

 throat white, a white baud across the rump, shafts of the feathers 

 brown; secondaries, except the innermost, with very perceptible 

 whitish margins. Total length about 6 inches, wing .5-S, lateral 

 rectrices 3, central 1-8. ♦ » . 



Tail of Mirrojms caffei 



Hah. Southern Africa, replaced in the mountains of Abyssinia 

 fa tL't^er'SrSo.'^' ^ "^"^ '"^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. S ad. ; d. 

 sk. 



''. $ ad. sk. 

 /. 6 ad. sk. 



g. S ad. sk. 

 Ji. Ad. sk. 

 ». Ad. sk. 

 k, I. Ad. sk. 



ni. 5 ad. sk. 



«. (S ad. sk. 



Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 2 ad. Cape Town, Feb. 7. 



Caledon, Oct. 10 (Butler). 

 Ivnysna, March 10 (Ayiders- 



so/i). 

 Knysna, March {Audcrs.-iou). 

 George {H. Atmore). 

 George (H. Atmore). 

 Kingwilliamstowu. 



Potchefstrooni, Oct. 24. 



Nalal {Cutter). 



Gould Coll. 



J. Verreaux Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Shai-pe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 C Trevelyan, Esq. 



J. H. Guniev, Esq. 



[P.]. • ^ 



Miarpe Coll. 



