438 MUSOPHAGID^. 



p. 11 (1871) ; Seiche?!. J. f. O. 1877, p. 14; Socage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 541 (1881) ; Schaloiv, J. /. 0. 1886, p. 21. 



Adult male. Head and neck grass-green ; back, wings, and tail 

 glossy violet ; quills, with the exception of the outer one, bright 

 crimson, with the edges and shafts black ; bare ocular patch scarlet, 

 with a band of white feathers in front and below, this being divided 

 by a patch of black feathers on the cheek ; front and centre of chest 

 grass-green like the neck ; remainder of the body and the under 

 tail-coverts violet-shaded black ; under surface of quUls like the 

 upper surface ; under wing-coverts dark brown, partially washed 

 with green : bill deep olive, inclining to yellow on the edges ; iris 

 hazel ; legs black. Total length 15-7 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 6-5, 

 tail 8, tarsus 1*6. 



AcMt female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 17 

 inches, culmen I'l, wing 7, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-G5. 



Hah. Confined to West Africa, where it ranges from Senegambia 

 to the Congo. 



a. Ad. sk. Casamauce. Sharpe Coll. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Ashantee. Godfrey Lagden,Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. Shelley Coll. 



e, f. Ad. sk. Fantee. Sharpe Coll. 

 a. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. (T. E. Suchley). Sharpe Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. ■ Denkera [H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



i. Ad. St. River Niger. T. Thompson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 k, I, m. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mt9.,Feb. (A. Cross- Sharpe Coll. 



%)• 

 n, 0. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Shelley Coll. 



jt. 2 ad. sk. Landaua, River Congo, Feb. Shellev Coll. 



(i. Petit). 



3. Turacus buffoni. 



Le Touraco Buffon, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promerops, p. 3.3, pi. 17 (1806). 

 Opaetlnis buffonii, Vieill. Noiw. Diet, xxxiv. p. 304 (1819) ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. IlW (18.'>3). 

 Corythaix buflbni, Jardine ^ Selby, III. Oi-n. pi. 122 (1825) ; HaHl, 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 156 (1857); Shar2)e Sf Souvier, Sitll. Soc. ZooL 



France, i. "p. 50 (1876) ; Bocaqe, Orn. Anqola, p. 541 (1882) ; 



Schaloiv, J. /."O. 1886, p. 24 ; Seichen. J.f. O. 1887, pp. 299, 302. 

 Spelectos persa {ncc Linn.), Wiigler, Sgst. A v. Spelectos, sp. 2 (1827). 

 Corythaix purpureus, Cuv., Less. Traite, p. 124 (1831) ; Harfl. J.f. O. 



1854, p. 125; Seiche?!. J. f. 0. 1875, pp. I, 48. 

 Corythaix senegalensis, Szvains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 225, pi. 21 (1837). 

 Turacus persa, pt., Bp. Consp. i. p. 87 (1850). 

 Turacus -buffoni, Silpp. Arch.f. Naturg. xvii. p. 320 (1851) ; Hartl. 



op. cit. xviii. p. 20 (1852) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1852, pp. 73, 79. 

 Turacus purpureus, J. S,- E. Verr. Sev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 258 ; 



Souvier, Cat. Marche S^c. p. 27 (1875). 

 Musophaga meriani {?iec Supp.), Schl. J.f. 0. 1854, p. 462. 

 Musophaga purpurea, Schl. l^' Wester?n. Toe>-aJco^s,-p. 17, pi. 10 (1860). 



Adult male. Similar to T. jyersa, but differs in having a broad 



