418 PERISTERrD-E. 



half of the upper wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and two central 

 tail-feathers brown with an olive gloss, and passing into deep 

 bluish slate-colour on the outer wing-coverts ; rump washed with 

 slaty grey ; bastard wing and primary-coverts brownish black ; 

 primaries blackish brown, with partial narrow light edges ; outer 

 secondaries dark grey; lateral tail-feathers brown-grey, bluish 

 towards the tips and with a blackish band about the middle ; under 

 surface of the tail black at the base, light grey at the apical part ; 

 the vinous chest passes into leaden grey on the sides, abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter slightly paler at their 

 edges; under wing-coverts deep slate-colour : eyelids red; "irides 

 orange-red; bill black; feet red" (Bagazzi). Total length 124 

 inches, wing 7"4, tail 5-5, bill 07, tarsus - 95. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hab. The whole African continent, from about 14° N. lat. 

 southwards. 



a. $ ad. sk. 



b. S ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. <3 ad. sk. 



/. <$ ad. sk. 



ff-m. 6 2 ad. sk. 



n. Ad. sk. 

 o. Ad. sk. 

 j). 2 a d- sk. 

 q, r. Ad. sk. 



s. Ad. sk. 

 t. Juv. sk. 

 u. Ad. sk. 

 v. Ad. sk. 

 to. Ad. sk. 

 x. S ad. sk. 

 y. Ad. st. 

 s. £ ad. sk. 

 a'. Ad. sk. 

 b'. Ad. sk. 



c', d'. Ad. sk. 



«'. $ ad. sk. 



/'. Pull. sk. 



g'. Skeleton, 



A in on Lebka R., Samhar, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Abyssinia. [C.]. 



Ankober, Abyssinia, Jan. India Museum [P.]. 



{Harris). 



Mombas. Sharpe Coll. 



Lake Bombo, Mombas, July Shelley Coll. 



{Hildebrandt). 



Kilimanjaro, Aug. H. C. V. Hunter, 



Esq. [P.]. 



Manda Is. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[?•]■ 

 Zomba, Nvassaland, Aug. {A. H. H. Johnston, Esq. 



Whyte). [P.]. 



Dar-es-Salaam {Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



Transvaal ? Gurney Coll. 



Grahamstown (E. L. Layard). Shelley Coll. 

 S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [C] 



(Types of C. levaillanti, Smith, MS.) 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Eendall's Coll. 



Emin Pasha [P.]. 



Shelley Coll. 



J. Monteiro, Esq. 

 [C.]. 



Captains Burton & 

 Cameron [P.], 

 Eio Dande, Loando, June Sharpe Coll. 



(Sala). 

 Bred in confinement, Aug. E. W. H. Blagg, Esq 



Gaboon ( Verreaux). Eytoh Coll. 



Accra {Buckley). 



Accra, May {J. Smith). 



Accra. 



Elminia, April {Blissett). 



Ashanti. 



Coast of Guinea, Aug. 



Gambia. 



Tingasi, July. 



? Gaboon {JDu Chaillu). 



Benguela. 



Ancobra R. 



