284 cucuLtD^. 



Adult male. A}30ve, as well as the sides of the head and sides "of 

 the neck, uniform deep metallic green, often partially shaded with 

 lilac ; a partial white cj-ebrow extendinj]; over the ear-coverts ; quills 

 dark brown, washed on their outer webs with metallic green and on 

 their inner ones notched with white ; four centre tail-feathers 

 uniform green like the back, the outer three pairs white with a 

 large subtenninal green spot on their outer webs, their inner webs 

 having generally a few broad black bars, the third from the outside 

 having that web more boldly marked and with nearly the entire 

 basal half black ; under surface of body snow-white, the green sides 

 of the neck advancing in a patch on the sides of the fore neck ; the 

 front half of the long thigh-coverts metallic green ; under wing- 

 coverts white with a few dusky bars ; quills dusky black, with 

 white triangular notches to their inner webs not reaching to the 

 shafts : irides brown ; bill and legs duskj*. Total length 6*2 inches, 

 culmen 0'6, wing 3-8, tail 3, tarsus 0-G5. 



Adult female. Sides and upper half of the head and neck brown ; 

 a white spot barred with brown behind the eye and over the ear- 

 coverts ; back brown, obscurely barred with rufous and metallic 

 bronze or green ; wing-coverts, scapulars, and secondaries with 

 alternate bars of metallic green and I'ufous ; quills dark brown, 

 notched with rufous on both webs, forming incomplete bars ; outer 

 tail-coverts with some white on their outer webs ; four centre 

 tail-feathers brownish bronze, with broad metallic fiery copper 

 or green ends, the next pair have their inner webs rufous instead 

 of white as in the males : beneath huffy white, narrowly barred 

 with dark brown zigzag lines ; the brown sides of the neck 

 advancing in a patch on the sides of the fore neck ; the front 

 half of the long thigh-coverts with concentric bands of bronze 

 and rufous. Total length 6'4 inches, culmen ()-6. wing 3-7, tail 3, 

 tarsus (Xio. 



Immature male. Somewhat resembles the adult female, but differs 

 in the crown and back being alternately barred with metallic green 

 and rufous ; the sides of the head, neck, and lateral patch on the 

 chest rufous-white barred with brownish bronze, and the under- 

 parts generally white, more irregularly barred with brownish 

 bronze. 



Hah. The whole of Tropical Africa. 



a, h. Ad. et imm. Senegambia. Sharpe Coll. 



sk. 



c, d, e. cJ ad. sk. Fautee^lf. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



/, //■ S 'id. sk. Denkera, Jan. (//. T. Blis- Shai-pe Coll. 



sett). 



h. cJ ad. sk. Gold Coast {Auhinn). Shelley Coll. 



i. (S ad. sk. Cameroous, Feb. 2, 1871 {A. Shai-pe Coll. 



CrossJcy). 



k. S .iii"^'- sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



I. 5 ad. st. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



m. (S ad. sk. Semmio, Niam-Niam Country, F. Bohndorli [C.]. 



March. 



