1. AHDI1IIA. 293 



• <Ukamba) ; Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 295 (1880) ; Bocnr/e, Orn. 



Angola, p. 451 (1881 : Capan<^oinbe ; Quillengues ; Humbe) ; 



Shetley, this, 1872, p. 304 (Aliishoua-land ) ; S/iarpe, ed. Layardi's 



B. 8. 'Afr. p. 730 (1884) ; Biikin. J. f. 0. 1885, pp. 39, 52 (K ikoma); 



Schalniv,J.f. 0.1886, p. 431 (Maruno:ii) ; ^y/rs, Ibis, 188(5, p. 297 



(Transvaal) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 50 (Victoria Nyanza) ; 



Matschie, t. c. p. 146 (Marungu, Nov.) ; Biittik. Notes Leijd. Mas. 



X. p. 244 (1888: Kasini'a R.) ; id. op. cit. xi. pp. 78, 99 (1889) ; 



Reichen. Vor/. deiitsch-Ost-Afr. p. 59(1894: Ig-onda; Ukamba ; 



Tanjanika; Victoria Nyanza); Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 91; 



Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 159 (1896) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1896, p. 38 



(Aden, March). 

 Sphenorhynchus abdimii, Hemjyr. 8,- Ehr. Si/mb. Phys. fol. F. tab. 5 



(1832) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. xciii. fig. 455 (1850) ; Harll. J.f. 0. 



1854, p. 293 (\V. Africa); Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 61 (1856); id. 



Ibis, 1861, p..70 (Seunaar) ; Antin.' Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 101 (1864: 



Doagola) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 257 ; id. in Anderss. B. Dam. 



Ld. p. 280 (1872) ; Heine ^ Reichen. Nomencl. Mm. Hein. p. 312 



(1890: Kartoum). 

 Abdiniia sphenorhyucba, Bjy. Consp. Av. ii. p. 106 (1855). 



Adult male. General colour above black, slightly glossed with steel- 

 green and purple, these colours being more distinct on the hind-neck; 

 tack, rump, and upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts blackish, 

 glossed with steel -green and purple, the lesser coverts almost 

 entirely coppery purple ; quills blackish, with metallic green on their 

 inner face and slightly glossed above with green or purple ; tail 

 black, faintly glossed with purple on the outer web and with green 

 on the inner one, the under surface being bronzy green ; head, neck, 

 and fore-ucck metallic green and purple ; the rest of the under 

 surface, from the fore-neck downwards, white, including the axil- 

 laries and under tail-coverts ; under mng-coverts blackish with a 

 metallic green gloss : " bill horny green, the tip crimson ; cheeks 

 bright lead-colour ; round the ears, in front of eyes, nostrils, and 

 throat crimson ; legs dull olive-green ; feet and knees crimson ; 

 claws black" (./. W. Yerhury). Total length 30 inches, culmen 

 4'4, wing 17"5, tail 7'2, tarsus 4-8. 



Adnlf female. Similar to the male : " iris light tawny brown ; 

 bill reddish at tip. greenish at base ; bare skin round the eye and 

 about the chin red; feet and front part of the tarsi, also the un- 

 covered part of the tibite, dusky brown " (T. Ay res). Total length 

 24 inches, culmen 42, wing 17"4, tail 7, tarsus 4'7. 



Young. Differs from the adult in wanting the lustre on the plumage, 

 the head and neck being brown without any gloss : " bill reddish 

 towards the tip, greenish towards the base ; bare skin about the 

 eye and chin ri d, in front of cere bluish ; tarsi and feet dingy brick- 

 red ; iris light tawny brown " (T. Ay res). 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



o, 6. Ad. st. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Shelley Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Massowa. Capt. Wharton [P.]. 



■e. cJ ad. sk. Senafe, Abyssinia, May 8 Tweeddale Coll. 



{W.Jesse). 



