1. TuuACUs. 439 



jet-black band beneath the eye and no white band beneath it. 

 Total length IG inches, culmcn 1"1, wing 7'3, tail 8, tarsus 1-6. 



In a specimen from the Gambia there is a narrow white lino 

 beneath the 1>lack band on the side of the head. The specific value 

 of this form is further rendered more doubtful from its range being 

 the same as that of T. persa. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Congo to Senegal. 



a. (S ad. sk. Senegal. Riocom- Coll. 



Ii. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Sliarpe Coll, 



4. Turacus schalowi *. 



CoiTthaix livingstonii {nee Gray), Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 92 ; 

 B<ic(ifje, Jiini. Lish. 1867, pp. 142, 3:lo, 1870, p. 347 ; Finsch ^ 

 Har'tl. Vof/. Ostafr. ^. 477, pi. .^ (1870, pt.); S/iarpe, Cat. Afr. 

 B. p. 11 (1871) ; Bocai/e. Oni. Angola, p. 132 (1877) ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p." 143 (1875-85, pt.) ; Schalmv, J.f. O. 1885, 

 pi. "5. fig. 3, 1886, p. 26, 1887, p. 232 ; Matschie, t. c. pp. 136, 

 140 ; Soi'za, Jorn. Lish. 1889, pp. 44, 122. 



Corj-tbaix schalowi, lieichen. J.f. O. 1891, p. 5. 



Adidt female. Head, neck, and chest grass-green, with the ends 

 of all the feathers of the crest and nape white ; bare skin round the 

 eye bright red, bordered in front by a white band from the lores 

 and below by short black feathers, which widen into a patch across 

 the cheek ; from behind the black patch on the cheeks extends a 

 white band to beyond the ear-coverts ; back and wings glossy green, 

 partially washed with blue ; quills crimson and black as in all the 

 species of the genus ; tail violet, much bluer than the back ; lower 

 breast, abdomen, thighs, under tail- and wing-coverts dusky slate- 

 colour, partially washed with glossy green : iris brown ; bill orange ; 

 legs black. Total length 17 inches, culmen I'D, wing 6-8, tail 7'5, 

 tarsus 1"5, crest 4. 



Hah. Mossamedes and Benguela to the western shores of Lake 

 Tanganyika. 



a. Ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Biballa (Anckieta). Shelley Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



c. 2 ad. sk. Biballa (Atichiefa). Sharpe Coll. 



5. Turacus livingstoni. 



Opaetiis africanus (wee Lath.), Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamh. fasc. 



iii. p. 34 (1850, pt). 

 Turacus livingstoni), Graij,P.Z.S. 1864, p. 44; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 125, no. 7851 (1870) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 309. 

 Cdr^ihaix livingstonii. Kirk, Ibis, 1804, p. 328 ; Finsch ^- Hartl. 



t'oy. (htdfr. p. 477 (1870, pt.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 143(1875-85); Fisch. ^- lieichen. J.f. O. 188t), p. 141; Tris- 



* Dr. Eeichenow has sent rae an advance sheet of the April Heft of the 

 ' Jounial fiir Ornitliologie,' and I find that he has also discovered that the 

 Benguela bird is distinct. I have suppressed the name whicli I had given to 

 it, and havo substituted tliat of Dr. Reifilienow. 



