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Agapornia roseicollis, Strickl. \ Sclat. Cantor. Orn. 1852, p. \~>6 ; Bp. 

 Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 223 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. 

 de Zool, 1856, p. 217; />/>. Naumanma, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 225 ; 



#«>•</. Joum. f. Orn. 1861, p. 262; ? A7/V.-, Z&w, 18(54, p. 329 

 (Shire, between Nyassa and the rapids) ; Chapm. Trav. in S.Afr., 

 App. p. 406 ( ); Bocage, Jorn. 8c. Lisboa, i. p. 336 (1867); 

 Sousa, Mm. Nao. Lisboa, Peiitaci, p. 20 ( 1869) ; Russ, Journ.f. Orn. 

 I860; p. 82; Brehm, Journ.f. Orn. 1869, p. 139; G. R. Gr. Hand- 

 list, ii. p. 167, n. 83(37 (1870) ; Gairod, P. Z. 8. 1873, pp. 465. 63 1 ; 

 Sharpe, Lagard's B. of 8. Afr. p. 192 (1875-84); Bchnio. VogeU 

 bild. t. xx. f. 1 (1878-83) : id. Joum. f. Orn. 1881, p. loS ( Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 146); Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 461(1882); Sclat. 

 List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 330 (1883) ; Biittik. Not. Legd. Mus. xi. 

 pp. 60, 195 (1889); Tristr. CM. Coll. B. p. 77 (Natal!)* (1889). 



Psittacuia passerina, Magyar Ldssld, Delafrik. Utazasai, 1849-51, i. 

 p. 242. 



Agapornis roseicapilla (errore), Garrod, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 587. 



Adult male. Green, underneath yellowish green; forehead and 

 supercilium red ; lores, sides of the head, and throat pale rose- 

 colour ; uropygium and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue ; quills dusky, 

 green on the outer web ; the inner web of the quills underneath 

 and greater under wing-coverts tinged with bluish ; the remaining 

 under wing-coverts green ; tail tipped with pale blue ; central tail- 

 feathers blue, the lateral ones red towards the base, then green, with 

 a black incomplete band : bill yellow ; feet dusky. Total length 

 about 6 inches, wing 4'2, tail 2, bill 0*7, tarsus 0*5. 



Adult female. Apparently like the male. 



Young. No red colour on the forehead, which is fulvescent ; the 

 rose-colour of the cheeks and throat very pale. 



Ilab. South-western Africa, from Angola to Great Namaqua- 

 Land, and, according to Layard, also South-eastern Africa, on the 

 Limpopo. 



a. Ad. st. 



b. Juv. st. 



c. cJ ad. sk. 

 ,/. Ad. ak. 

 e. <3 ad. sk. 

 /. 6 ad. Bk. 



g. 2 ad. sk. 



h, i. 3 ad. et ad. 



sk. 

 /». Sternum. 



S. Africa. Purchased. 



S. Africa. Alassena Coll. 



[Gaboon] (Verreane). Sharpe Coll. 



Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



Kattenbella, Oct. (Said). Sharpe Coll. 

 Ondonga, Damara-Land (Anders- Sharpe Coll. 



son). 



Damara-Land. Purchased. 



( (martini, Nov. Shelley Coll. 



* Being unable to find in Mr. Gurney's acoounts of Ayres's collections from 

 Natal a Parrot under the name of A. roseicollis, I have asked Canon Tristram 

 to send me the bird registered in his Catalogue; it is marked Limpopo River ; 

 but Mr. Sharps informs me thai it has t he appearance of one of Andersson's 

 skins from Damara-Land. 



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