26. POEOCEPHALUS. 373 



Poeocephalus simplex, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1887, p. 55 (Serian, 

 Victoria Nyanza ; $ ). 



Adult male. Head, neck, back, and wings brown, the cheeks and 

 front part of the neck with a reddish tinge ; rump bluish green, 

 upper tail-coverts light green, with the bases yellow ; breast and 

 under wing-coverts scarlet ; abdomen and under tail-coverts light 

 green, with the base of the feathers orange-yellow ; tail brown with 

 a reddish tinge, nearly obsolete on the inner webs of the outer 

 feathers : " iris orange, red, or maroon ; bill horn-black ; feet dark 

 or bluish " (Antinori). Total length 9 inches, wing 6*1, tail 3-1, 

 bill 0-98, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the feathers of the 

 breast brown-reddish, with green edges, and the under wing-coverts 

 brown. 



Hob. Eastern Africa, from Abyssinia to Massai-Land. 



a, b. Ad. st. Shoa ( Han-is). Hon. E. India Co. [P.]. 



c-g. Ad. sk. Abyssinia (Harris). India Museum [P.]. 



h. S ad. sk. Sin. a (Antinori). Shellev Coll. 



i. £ ad. sk. Taita, July. Dr. Ilildebrandt [P.]. 

 k. Skeleton. 



13. Poeocephalus meyeri. 



Psittacus meyeri, Rupp. in Cretzschmar's Atlas, p. 18, t. 11 (1826) ; 



Voigt, Cuv. Ccbers. p. 743 (1831); Rupp. Neue Wirbetth., Yog. 



pp. 61, 62 (1835) ; Bourj. Pert: pi. 61 (1837-38); G. R. Gr. Gen. 



B. ii. p. 421, n. 4 (1846) ; id. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 70 (1859) ; 



Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psitt. p. 36 (1864) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. GeseU. 

 Wien, 1865, p. 923 (var.) ; Chapm. Trav. in S. Afr., App. p. 406 



(1868); Ayres # Gum. Ibis, 1869, p. 296; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 19 (1871); Buck/eg, Ibis, 1874, p. 369; Schleg. Mas. P.-B. 



Psittaci, Revue, p. 10 (1874) ; Sharpe, Lay curd's Birds S. Afr. p. 95 



(1875-84) ; id. in Gates' Matab. Land 8f Vict. Falls, App. p. 307 



(1881) ; Hartl. Abh. Brem. vii. p. 126 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 249 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 78 (1889). 

 Pionus meyeri, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 613 (1832) ; Hartl. Syst. Verz. 



Ges. Mus. p. 88 (1844); Rupp. Si/st. Ueb. d. Vbg. N.O.-Afr. 



p. 94 (1845) : Lefebvre, Abyss., Ois. p. 128 (1846-50) ; Heugl. Syst. 



Uebers. a. 468 1 1855) ; id. Faun. Both. Meer. n. 193; Brehm, Reis. 



nach Habesch, p. 363 (1863) ; Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 153; 



Antin. Catal p. 2 (1864); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 113; Blanf. 



Oml. 8,- Zool. Abi/ss. p. 304 (1870) ; Haiti. Abh. Brem, vii. p. 114 



(1881); Bub. Bull. Mus. Rog.d'H. A. Belg. iv. p. 147 (1886) 



(Tanganyika). 

 Psittacus navoscapulatus, Fhrenb.,fule Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 20 



(1849). 

 Psittacus mayerii (sic), Bianc. Specim. Mosamb. fa.-e. iv. p. 49 (1851) • 



Heugl. Journ./. Or,,. 1862, p. 294. 

 Poeocephalus meyeri, Strickl. \ Sclat. Contr. Om. 1852, p. 156 



(Damara-Land) ; />'/>. Rev. et Mag. de '/.<><>l. L854, p. 154, n. 213; 



Souance, Rev. et Mug. de Zool. L866, p. 216: Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, 

 ]>. L97 (noli-); Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisa. n. 5, 1868, p. 45; Sousa, 

 Mus. Nac. Lis/). I'sittaii. p. li» (1869); Bocat/e, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 

 n. 8, 1870, p. 8 18 : G irrod, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 692 , : Rchnw. VogeUtild. 



