446 MUSOPHAGID^. 



a. Ad. sk. Masai-land. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 b,c. c? 5 ^^- sk. Kilimanjaro, Ang. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



d, e. c? ? ad. sk. Kilimanjaro (10,000 ft. ; British Association [P.]. 

 H. H. Johnston). 



2. GALLIREX. 



Type. 



Gallirex, Less. Eciio du Monde Sav. col. 100 



(1844) . . G. porphyreolophvis. 



Range. N.E. Africa and East Africa, extending south to Natal 

 and to the Knysna district of the Cape Colony. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



(t. With a strong shade of pink in front of the 



mantle and chest por2)hi/reolopJrus, p. 446. 



b. With no shade of pink on the plumage .... chlorochlamys, p. 447. 



1. Gallirex porphyreolophus. 



Musophaga porphyreolophus, Vi(j. P. Z. S. 1831 , p. 93 (June) ; Schl. 



(§• Westerm. Toerako's, p. 12, pi. 3 (1860) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bets, 



Cuculi, p. 75 (1864). 

 Corythaix burchellii, Sinith, S. Afi\ Quart. Journ. 1831, p. 13 



(October). 

 Gallirex anais, Less. Echo du Mo7ide Sav. 1844, p. 110. 

 Corythaix porphyreolophus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 35 (1839) ; 



Jard. S; Selby, III. Orn. pi. 46 (c. 1839) ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Ilein. 



iii. p. 99 (i860); Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 32; Mrk, Ibis, 18(i4, 



p. 329 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 227 (1867) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, 



p. 248; Sharpie, Cat. Afr. B. p. 11 (1871); id. ed. Layard's B. S. 



Afr. p. 142 (1875) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 82; Souza, Jorn. Lisb. 



1886, p. 78. 

 Gallirex porphyreolophus, Less. Descr, Mamm. 4' Ois. p. 352 (1847) ; 



Schalow, J.f. O. 1886, p. 50. 

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



i. p. 87 (1850) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 74 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 125, no. 7858 (1870). 



Adult male. Forehead, sides of the head, chin, lores, and back of 

 i;pper neck metallic green, passing into glossy violet-blue on the 

 crest and nape ; eyelids scarlet ; neck and front of chest grass-green, 

 with a strong pink shade towards the mantle and chest ; mantle and 

 ■wing-coverts ashy blue, shading into green towards the neck and 

 on the least wing-coverts ; remainder of the glossj- part of the wings, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail greenish blue ; back duller and more 

 dusky ; primaries as in species of Turacus, crimson, with the outer 

 one and the borders of the others blaclv ; remainder of the body and 

 under wing-coverts dusky ash-colour, darker and partially washed 

 with glossy green on the under tail-coverts : iris dark brawn ; bill 



