20 IBIDID^. 



p. 431 (Likulwe River) ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 242 



(1885: Liberia), xi. pp. 127, 136 (1889); Reichen. J.f. O. 1887, 



p. 146 (Kinandu Bay); Schalow, t. c. p. 226; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 



p. 542 (Victoria Nvauza). 

 Ibis chalcoptera, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xvi. p. 9 (1817: 



Senegal); id. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 123, pi. 246 (1834); Waffler, Syst. 



^i;.,Ibis, p. 185, sp. 9 (1827) ; Jard. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xvii. 



p. 7 (1846: Old Calabar River). 

 Harpipriou hagedash, Gray, Lid Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 92 (1844 : 



R. Gambia): Rlipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 122 (1845); Hewjl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 61 (1856: Blue and White Nile). 

 Geronticus hagedash. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847) ; Hartl. Orn. 

 W.-Afr. p. 231 (18.57); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 174 



(Gamma River) ; Guriiey, Ibis, 1859, p. 248 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, 



p. 270 (Bissao) ; Anfiti. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. lOS (1864: Senaar; 



Kordofan ; White Nile) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 274 (Natal) ; 



Larjard, B. S. Afr. p. 320 (1867: Knvsna : Zambesi) ; Gurney, 



Ibis, 1868, p. 260; Gray, Hund-l. B. iii. p. 40, no. 10223 (1871) ; 



Axjres, Ibis, 1871, p. 266 (Vaal River) ; IShar/w S,- Bourier, Bull. 



Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 79 (1878: Quilo) ; Fischer, J.f. O. 1879, 



pp. 295, 296; Shel/ey, P. Z. S. 1881, p. (500 (Usanibara Hills) ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 460 (1881 : Cabinda; not S. of Congo); 



Butler, Feilden, Vy Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 423 (Newcastle; Colenso, 



breeding); Hartert, J.f O. 1886, p. 607 (Samfara; Loko). 

 Hagedashia caiFrensis, Bp. Con.sp. ii. p. 152 (1855) ; Gurney in 



Anderss. B. Bam. Ld. p. 298 (1872 : Lake Regions ; R. Teoughe, 



breeding ; R. Botletle). 

 Phimosus hagedash, Ileichenb. Grcdla, Taf. Ixxx. fig. 530 (1851). 

 Bostrychia hagedash, Bp. C. R. xl. p. 725 (1855). 

 Hag-edashia chalcoptera, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 500. 

 Ibis caffrensis, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 12 (Loango), p. 155. 

 Ibis (Hagedashia) chalcoptera, Oiist. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. 



p. 117 (1879: Lnp(5, July). 

 Hagedashia hageda.-^li, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 739 



(1884 : E. London). 

 Theristicus caffrensis, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 1887, p. 43 (Simiu 



River; Victoria Nyanza ; Ugaia). 

 Parnopio hageda.sh, Heine ^ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 314 



(1890). 

 Theristicus leucocephalus, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 54 



(1894: U.sambara ; Ugalla; Aruscha ; Teita; Victoria Nyanza). 



Adtilt female. General colour above dark olive-green, with in- 

 distinct edges of darker green ; the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts blackisb, with a slight gloss of steel-blue ; tail dark 

 purplish blue, with a slight greenish shade near the end ; wing- 

 coverts metallic green, changing under certain lights to rosy purple, 

 the greater series externally coppery bronze ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills purplish black, the secondaries more decidedly 

 purple, the inner ones dark green like the back ; head and neck 

 clothed with feathers of a dusky ash-grey, the head and sides of face 

 uniform, but the feathers of the nape and hind-neck with ashy-whitish 

 margins ; the sides of the face and car-covcrts rather darker grey 

 than the head, as also the throat ; along the upper cheeks a band 

 of whitish feathers ; remainder of under surface of body ashy 

 brown, with pale sandy-coloured margins to most of the feathers, 

 especiall}^ on the fore-neck and chest ; under tail-coverts dark green 



