444 MTJSOPHAGlDiE. 



12, Turacus erythrolophus. 



Opaethus erythrolophus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 306 (1819) ; 



id. Enc. Meth. p. 1298 (1823); id. Gal. Ois. p. 46, pi. 49 (1825). 

 Musophaga paiilina, Temm. PI. Col. i. p. 75, pi. 23 (1820). 

 Corythaix paulina, Shcnv, Gen. Zool xiv. p. 222, pi. 26 (1826) ; 



Less. Traite, p. 124 (1831) ; Hartl J. f. O. 1854, p. 256 ; Mon- 



teiro, Ibis, 1862, p. 338. 

 Spelectns erythrolophus, Wagl. Syst. Av., Spelectos, sp. 3 (1827). 

 Corythaix i^-iiiceps, Less. Man. Orn. ii. p. 155 (1828). 

 Turacus erythrolophus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 395 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 87 (1850) ; Riipp. Arch. f. Naturg. xvii. p. 321 (1851) ; 



Hartl. op. cit. xviii. p. 20 (1852); Jard. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



pp. 74, 79 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 125, no. 7855 (1870) ; Bonvier, 



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

 Corythaix ervthrolopha, Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 125 ; id. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. 168 (1857); S/iarpe,^Cat. Afr. B. p. 11 (1871); id. 



T.Z.S. 1871, p. 134; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 144 (1875- 



85) ; Boeage, J. f. O. 1870, p. 316 ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 131 



(1877) ; Schalow, 'j.f. O. 1886, p. 44. 

 Musophaga erythrolopha, Schl. Sf Westerm. Toeraho's, p. 14, pi. 6 



(1860). 



Adult. Sides of the head and chin white, passing into grass- 

 green on the throat, neck, and fore part of the chest ; upper part 

 of the head and the nape blood-red, slightly darkest on the ends of 

 the feathers of the nape ; the longer crest-feather.s tipped "with 

 white ; mantle and metallic portion of the wings golden green ; 

 back dusky blue, partially glossed with golden green ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail purplish blue, the feathers partially edged with 

 green ; remainder of the body, under tail- and wing-coverts dusky 

 slate-colour slightly glossed with green ; a small bare patch round 

 the eye, probably red in life : bill yellow, with an olive shade near 

 the nostrils ; iris brown ; legs black. Total length 15-3 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 7"1, tail 8-2, tarsus 1"55. 



Hah. Confined to West Africa, where it ranges from Sierra Leone 

 to Angola. 



a. Ad. sk. Africa. J. Miers, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Angola {A. de Fonseca). Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Benguela. Shelley Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Loanda ( Toulson). Shelley Coll. 



13. Turacus leucolophus. 



Turacus leucolophus, Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 45 (1856) ; id. J. f. 0. 



1864, p. 268; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 125, no. 7854 (1870); 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. cliii (1872). 

 Corythaix leucolophus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 159, note (1857) ; 



Hevgl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 703, pi. 24 (1871) ; HaHl. Abhandl. 



nat. Ver. Brem. viii". p. 210 (1882) ; Sharpe, Joiirn. Linn. Soc, 



Zool. x\u. p. 433 (1884) ; Schaloir, J. f. 0. 1886, p. 20; Shelley, 



P. Z. S. 1888, p. 44. 

 Musophaga leucolopha, Schl. <§• Westerm. ToeraJ(o\i, p. 12, pi. 4 



(1860).' 



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