374 PSITTACID.E. 



t.vii. f. 1 (1878-83) ; id. Joiim.f. Om. 1881, p. 385 (Consp, Psitt. 



p. 224) ; Salv, Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 463 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. 



An. 8th ed. p. 337 (1883) ; ? Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 525 (Niger) ; 



Schal. Journ. f. Om. 1883, p. 345 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) i. p. 255 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Om. 1884, p. 372 ; 



id. Joum.f. Om. 1885, p. 122 ; A i/res, Ibis, 1886, p. 291 (Transvaal) ; 



Schal. Journ. f. Om. 1887, p. 231; Rchnv. Joum.f. Om. 1891, 



p. 146. 

 Pyocephalus meyeri, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psdt. no. 219. 

 Poiocephalus rneyeri, Bolle, Journ. f. Om. 1856, p. 170. 

 Pionus mayeri (sic), Heugl. Journ. f. Om. 1862, p. 37. 

 Pkseocephalus xanthopterin, Heugl. Joum.f. Om. 1863, p. 271. 

 Pionias meveri, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 464 (1868) ; Heugl. Peterm. 



Geoqr. Mitth. 1869, pp. 413, 415 ; Finsch u. Hartl. Yog. O.-Afr. 



p. 500 (1870) ; Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 270 (1870); Heugl. 



Om. N.O.-Afr. i. 2, p. 743 (1871) ; id. op. cit. Nachtr. p. clvii 



(1871) ; Antin. e Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. iv. p. 403 (1873) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 191 (1877) ; Bocage, Om. Ang. pp. xiv, 68 



(1881) ; B'ohm, Journ. f. Om. 1882, p. 207 ; Holub u. Pelz. Beitr. 



Om. S'udafr. p. 159 (1882) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. 



p. 430 (1884) ; Bbhm, Journ. f. Om. 1886, p. 428 ; Matschie, 



Journ. f. Om. 1887, p. 149. 

 Poicephaius meyeri, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 161, n. 8284 (1870) ; 



Anderss. B. Damara-Land, p. 213 (1872). 



Adult. Head, neck, interscapular region, wings, and tail brown ; 

 very often, but not always, a broad yellow crescent-like band across 

 the crown ; bend of the wing, metacarpal edge, under wing-coverts, 

 and thighs yellow ; lower back, rump, breast, flanks, abdomen, upper 

 and under tail-coverts bluish greeu, in some specimens more bluish 

 than green: " irides red" (Heuglin) ; " bare skin surrounding the 

 eye black ; bill darkish horn-colour, with a tinge of green ; legs and 

 toes greenish black ; iris deep bright rod-orange '' (Andersson). Total 

 length about '■> inches, wing 5-6, tail 2-(5, bill 0-9, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. No yellow band on the crown; the scapulars and the 

 wing-coverts edged with green ; the yellow feathers of the bend of 

 the wing and the under wing-coverts with brown bases ; thighs 

 green ; the lower back and the rump brighter blue and less green ; 

 the lower parts decidedly green, with no bluish tinge. 



Hah. Equatorial Africa from Abyssinia to Transvaal on the east, 

 and through the interior to Benguela and Damara-Land on the west. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. st. Abyssinia. Riippell [C.l. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Riippell [C.]. 



e. f.a. A 2 ad. sk. Kokai, Abyssinia, Jul v. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



' * [C.]. 



h. cS ft d- sk. Kokai, Abyssinia, July (Jesse). Shelley Coll. 



i, k. cS ad. et 2 Kokai, Abyssinia, July [Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



juv. sk. 



I. 2 ad. sk. Kokai, Abyssinia, July (Jesse). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. 2 a d- sk- Kokai, Abyssinia, July (Jesse). Sharpe Coll. 



n. 2 ad.sk. Waliko, Abv.-sinia, July (Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Bogos(.E*r). Shelley Coll. 



]i. Ad. sk. Kutabugali, Nyam Nyaui, Sen- F. Bohndorff. Esq. 



tember. [C-]- 



(j. Ad. sk. Zambesi (Bradshaw). Shelley Coll. 



