31. CEirrHMOCHARI S. 4Ql 



Adult female Forehead and crown leaden grey, imrtiaUv -lossed 

 with green, and w th elongated hair-like sha J'to the feathers 

 back Avings, and basal two-thirds of tail glossy metallic green' 



eS "^ T'' f''' '"^ '^' ^"^^^ ' ^^>" ^"^^ ^ f^^ «f the^ oral 



feathers grey ; throat, entire breast, thighs, and under tail-coverts 



with rufous on the wmg-coverts : "iris light brown, orbital and 

 loral space deep crimson; biU light green tinged with olive • feet 

 and legs lead-grey ; nails dark grey" (A. Everett). Totar knAh 

 17 inches^ cidmen 1-75, wing 6-3, tail 11, tarsus 1-6. ° 



■ttao. Palawan. 



"' .*■ o f.f ■ ii '■' '^' ^V^"" Pi'iuce.^, Palawan, Tweeddale CoU. 



;/ , • ^"^- ^^^-y J'l"- (A. Everett). 



f. Ad. sk. Palawan. E. Lempriere, Esq. [G.]. 



31. CEUTHMOCHARES. 



CeuthmocLares, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 60 (1862; . C.^neus. 

 lianc/e. The whole of Africa south of about 15" N". lat. 



Key to the Siyecies. 



a. Bluer: tail never entirely gi-een. 



a'. Darker : wings and tail uniform violet-blue • 



with no shade of green on the plumage . . . .' flavirostn^ n Jnl 

 b\ Paler: wing, and tail bluish Ji-een; centre-^ ' ^• 



7, ,...^|'"'-*^f '>"•« strongly shaded with gi-een .... (eneus, p. 402. 



b. \N ith no blue nor violet on the pliunage ; entu-e 



wmgs and tail glossy green australis, p. 403. 



1. Ceuthmochares flavirostris. 



Zanclostomus Havirostris, 6'«wn5. 5. W. Afr.u.-o 183 d1 lons-w». 



Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p'. 20(3, no. 887o (1870) ^ ' ^ ^ ^ (1837); 

 Zanclostomus reneus, Harll {nee F.), Oni. W.-Afr. p 187 (^t K of 



Equator) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 194. "^ ^ ^^ ' ' ^^ 



Pha'uicophaes flavirostris, Schl. Mus. Pa,,s-Bag, Cuculi, p 50 

 Ceuthmochares reneus fiharpe, P. Z. S. IST^i, p. 160 (pt ); Uss/,er 



Ibw, 18/4, p. 54 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S.Afr. pi 6 ti- -V ' 

 Ihcemcophaes tanens, BiUtikofer, Notes Leuden Mus. vii.°D~"->'4 



viu. p. 264. '^' " > 



Adult. Upper half of the head and back of the neck dark slatv 

 grey, very slightly shaded with violet and passing graduaUv into 

 deep glossy violet-blue on the back, wings, and tail, which parts 

 arc absolutely without a trace of green : on the sides of the head 

 a bare slaty-grey ophthalmic patch extending to the bill • under 

 surface of body dusky ash, very slightlv paler on the chin and 

 gradually i)assing into dusky slate-colour on the abdomen' and 

 thighs : under tail-coverts glossy violet-blue ; under surface of tlie 

 wmgs black, slightly glossed with violet-blue, especiaUv on the 

 coverts : bill yellow, with a triangular basal black i)atch on the 



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