49. rORI'IIYRIOLA. 187 



49. PORPHYRIOLA. ,__^ 



Type. 



Porphyrula, Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 283 (1849 ; 



de-sn: nulla) P. alleni. 



loDoniis, Ih-iehenh. Kat. Si/.sf. p. xxi (1852) P. martiiiica. 



Glaufesteti, Jii-ichinh. Nat. >Si/st. p. xxi (lSo2) P. parva. 



Hydroruia, Hart/. Orn. Wckafr. p. 'IV-i (18.">7) P. alleni. 



I'oi-plivriola, nomeyi emend, pro Porphyrula, Blyth, 



Siiudvv. Av. Mdh. Tent. p. 131 (1872) P. alleni. 



lonociuca, Sa/uad. Blench, ticc. Itul. p. 230 (1887) .... P. alleni. 



Range. Southern Europe (accidental), the whole of Africa, 

 Eastern North America, south throughout Central and the greater 

 part of South America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Below purplish bhie ; abdomen and thighs black. 

 «'. Wing-coverts externally green, like the quills ; 



lower back and rump black alleni, p. 187. 



h'. Wing-coverts externally blue ; primaries exter- 

 nally green ; lower back and rump green .... martinica, p. 189. 



b. Below white ; wings externally greyish blue parva, p. 191. 



1. Porphyriola alleni. 



Poqdiyrio alleni, rhomps. Ann. 4" May. N. II. x. p. 204 (1842) ; 

 Gray, Lid (iralhe Brit. Mns^. p. 121 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 598, 

 pi. clxii. (1845) ; Allen ^- Thoinps. Exj). Niyer, i. p. 332, ii. p. 507 

 (1848) ; Beiehenb. Handb., Fulicaria;, tab. cix. fig. 1 104 (1852) ; Bolle, 

 J.f. 0. 1857, p. 341, 1858, p. 457 ; Cass. Proc. Bhilad. Acad. 1859, 

 p. 175 (Camma P.); Mont. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 112 (Bembe) ; Ilartl. 

 J.f. O. 1801, p. 272; E. Xeu-t. Ibis, 1803, p. 458 (Madagascar); 

 Doderl. Avif. /Sicil. p. 204 (1809) ; Finsch ^- Ilartl. Voy. Ost-Afr. 

 p. 785 (1870); Selys-Lonych. Ibis, 1S70, pp. 452-454 (Sicily) ; Gray, 

 Iland-l. B. iii. p. 05, no. 10487 (lb71); Giirnei/, in Anderss. B, 

 Dam.-Ld. p. 32^ (1872) ; Shelley, B. Eqt/jit, p. 27(i (1872) ; Heuyl. 

 Orn. N. O.-Afr. ii. pt. i. p. 1228 (1873) ; Beichen. J.f. O. 1874, p. 370 

 (Cameroons) ; Saunders, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. p. 189 (1877: 

 S. Spain) ; Hartl. Voy. Madai/. p. 340 (1877) ; Gi//l. Icon. Avif. Ital. 

 fasc. ii. (1879) ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 307, pi. 502 (1880) ; Bocaye, 

 Orn. Amjola, p. 485 (1881); Sharpe, in Gates' Matabele-Ld. p. 324 

 (1881); Milne-Edwards ^- Grandid. Hist. Nat. Maday., Ois. i. 

 p. 593, pi. 245 (1882) ; Bbhm, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 188 (Zanzibar) ; 

 Sharj)e, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 021 (1884); Bbhm, J.f. O. 

 1885, p. 38 ('Ugalla River); Fischer, t. c. p. 117 (Zanzibar; 

 Barawa) ; Ai/res, Ibis, 1885, p. :UG (Transvaal); Hart erf, J. f. O. 

 1880, p. 008 (Loko); Beichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 108 (Cameroons) ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 304 (.lipi) ; Milne-Edwards ^- Oust. A. Arch. 

 Mus. (2) X. p. 279 (1889: Mayotte ; Podriguez ; Madagascar); 

 Biittik. Notesi Leyden Mus. xi. p. 77 (1889 : Ilunipata) ; E. Newt. 

 Tr. Norw. S,- Norf. N. H. Soc. iv. p. 552 (18Si): Podriguez) ; 

 Beichen. J.f .0. 1889, p. 207 (Zanzibar) ; id. J. f. O. 1890, p. 108 

 (Delta of Cameroons). 



Por])livrio chloronotus, Bli/th, J. A. S. Seng, xviii. pt. 2, p. 820 

 (1849). 



Porphyrula chloronotus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 283 (1849). 



