372 psiTTAcmzE. 



c, d. Ad. 8k. Rufisque, Senegambia, Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



(L. laylaize). 



e. Ad. sk. Casamanse (Boucard). Shelley Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Bathurst, K. Gambia (Quin). Sharpe Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Gambia (Capt. Moloney). Shelley Coll. 



h. Skeleton. 

 I. Skeleton. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



11. Poeocephalus versteri. 



Psittacus senegalensis, Allen fy Thotns. (nee anct.) Narr. Exped. Niger, 

 i. p. 311 (1848) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 559 (Niger). 



Psittacus senegalus, Haril. Syst. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 168 (part) (1857). 



Psittacus versteri, Goffin, MS. : Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 

 Berigt. p. xvi (1863). 



Pionias senegalus (part.), Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 489 (1868). 



Poeocephalus senegalensis, Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 519 (Niger). 



? Poeocephalus rufiventris, Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 524 (Niger). 



Adult. Very much like P. senegalus, from which it differs in 

 having the lower breast and abdomen orange-red : " iris bright 

 yellow, with a slight green circumpupillar ring ; bill and feet 

 greyish black ; orbits and cere black " (Forbes). 



Hab. The Niger Region, Western Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. River Niger (J. Baikie). 



b. Ad. sk. River Niger (Baikie). Sharpe Coll. 



c. d, e. $ ad. sk. Shonga. W. A. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Accra, April (J. Smith). Sharpe Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. [Gambia.] Sharpe Coll. 



12. Poeocephalus rufiventris. 



Pionus rufiventris, Biipp. Syst. Ueb. Toy. N.O.-Afr. pp. 83, 94, t. 32 

 (1845) ; Heuyl, Syst. Uebers. n. 470 (1855) ; id. Faun. d. Both. 

 Meet: n. 194. 



Psittacus rufiventris, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 20 (1849) ; id. 

 List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 71 (1859). 



Poeocephalus rufiventris, Bp. Ber. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 154, 

 n. 214; Horsf. fy Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 607 (1856- 

 58) ; Blyth, journ. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 298 (1855) ; Speke, Ibis. 1860, 

 p. 243 ; Sclat. Bep. Coll. Somal. Country, p. 9 (1860) ; Bchnw. 

 Voyelbild. t. xx. f. 7 (1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 386 

 (Consp. Psitt. p. 226) ; Saload. Ann. Mies. Civ. Gen. (2) i. pp. 78, 

 261 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. 1884, p. 372 (Masai) ; 

 id. Journ. f. Orn. 1885, p. 122 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 393 (Somali- 

 land) ; Gigl. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vi. p. 51 (1888) ; Salvad. 

 ibid. p. 207 (1888). 



Pseocephalus rufiventris, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 218. 



Pionias rufiventris, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 4«7 (1868) ; Heugl. Peterm. 

 Geoyr. Mitth. 1869, p. 415 ; Finsch # Hartl. Fog. O.-Afr. p. 498 

 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 2, p. 741 (1871) ; id. op. cit. 

 Nachtr. p. clvii (1871); lischer, Journ. f. Orn. 1878, p. 215; 

 Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1878, p. 241. 



Poicephalus rufiventris, G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 161, n. 8287 

 (1870). 



