4'3. A8AP0BUI3. 511 



Jour,/, f. Om. 1886, p. 598; Rchnio. Journ.f. Orn. L887, p; 302; 

 Shell. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 45 (Tingasi) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. JJ. pp.76, 

 77 (1879). 

 Agapornis xanthops, IL-ujl. Journ.f. Om. 1SG3, p. 271, 1864, p. 268. 



Adult male. Green, underneath yellowish green, throat tinged 

 with yellow; face orange-red ; the orbital feathers under the eves 

 white and blue ; uropyginm bright blue; quills with the outer wel) 

 dark green, and the inner web dusky ; bend of the wing and under 

 wing-coverts deep black ; metacarpal edge blue and yellow ; tail 

 with a black subapicaJ band, the central tail-feathers green, the 

 lateral ones yellowish green at the base and at tbe tip, red between 

 the green base and the black baud ; on the outer tail-feather the 

 red is confined to the inner web : lull red ; feet dark grey ; iris dark 

 brown. Total length about G inches, wing 2>'b to 3-~, tail 1-6 to 

 1-8, bill 0-55, tarsus 0-45. 



Ft male. Has the forehead, the feathers near the base of the lower 

 mandible, and the throat yellow-orange ; the blue spot on the uro- 

 pygium paler than in the male; the under wing-coverts green, and 

 the metacarpal edge yellow ; the tail as in the male. 



Young. Like the adult female, but the forehead is yellow, with no 

 orange tinge, and the yellow-orange colour near the base of the bill 

 and on the throat paler. 



Hab. Western Africa, from the Gold Coast to the Congo, including 

 the islands of Bight of Benin, ranging eastwards across Equatorial 

 Africa as far as the Gazelle lliver district and Niam-Niam Country. 



a. Ad. st. [var.]. Africa. J. Doubledav, Esq. [PA 



6. Ad. st. Africa. J. Pulham, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Africa. Purchased. 



ft Ad. sk. W. Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



/. g. Ad. sk. W. Africa. Dr. O. Fiusch [C."|. 



A-Ad.sk. Cape Coast. Colonel Strachan [P.]. 



i. Ad.sk. Coi,_ i. Shelley Coll. 



/.-. Ad.sk. Maasabe, Congo (Petit). Shelley Coll. 



/. Iium. sk. Landano, Congo (Petit). Shelley Coll. 



m. Ad.ak. Lagos. Sir A/Moloney [P.l. 



». cfad.sk. Shonga. W. A. Forbes, Esq. < '. . 



<>. J imm.sk. River Niger, May. F.Nicholson, Esq.[P.l 



P, q- 6 2 ad. sk. Tingasi, July. Emin Pasha [P.J. " 



r. <? imm. sk. Wadeli, Sept. (Emin Shelley Coll 



Pasha). 



8,t. Ai. sk. ShellevColl. 



". <'• Ad. .-k. [(.'ape Town.] Earl of Crawford [P. 1 . 

 ir. t. Skeleton 

 and skull 



4. Agapornis fischeri. 



Agapornis fischeri, Rchnw. Journ. f. Or//. 1887, pp. 54, 220 (Ussure, 

 Victoria Nyanza) ( 2 K 1889, t. iV. f. 1. 



Female. Forehead, cheeks, and throat orange-red, darker on the 



forehead, paler on tbe throat, where it turns to rose-colour; vertex 

 dull olive-green, occiput tinged with reddish ; band on the hind neck 



