202 Mr. R. B. Sharpe o)i the Ethiopian Coraciidee. 



5. CoilACIAS CYANOGASTRA. 



Le Rollier a venti'e bleu, Levaill. Rolliers, pi. 26 (1806). 



Coracias cyanoyaster, Cuv. Regne Anini. i. p. 401 (1817, ex Le- 

 vaill.) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Coracias, no. 6 (1827) ; Less. Traite 

 cVOrn. p. 355 (1831); Jard. & Selby, 111. of Oi-n. iii. pi. 

 cxxiii. ; Sw. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 108, pi. xiii. (1837) ; Gray, 

 Gen. of B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 34 

 (1848); Bonap. Cousp. Gen. Av. i. p. 167 (1850); Reich. 

 Handb. Merop. p. 48, t. ccccxxxii. figs. 3683-84 (1851); 

 Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 17 (1852), et J. f. 0. 1854, 

 p. 1; Mull. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 6; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 80 

 (1857); Cab. & Heine, Mas. Hein. ii. p. 116 (1860); Hartl. 

 J. f. 0. 1861, p. 104; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 136 

 (1867); Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1867, p. 133 ; Gray, Hand-1. 

 ofB. i. p. 76 (1869). 



Gahjulus cyanogaster, Vieill. N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 

 436 (1819) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 870 (1823). 



Coraciura cyanogastra, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854). 



Head, neck, and entire breast pale fawn-colour, everywhere 

 pervaded with a silvery green lustre, so that the ground-colour 

 is not perceptible ; chin, an obsolete eyebrow, and longitudinal 

 stripes on the throat hoary white ; upper portion of the back 

 and scapulars deep olive-brown ; wing-coverts vivid ultrama- 

 rine, the least ones (that is to say, those running along the 

 edge of the wing) beautiful silvery cobalt ; quills black, glossed 

 above and below with ultramarine, the basal half of the pri- 

 maries, and also of the outer secondaries, silvery cobalt, form- 

 ing a conspicuous broad alar bar ; innermost secondaries olive- 

 brown, like the scapulars, with which they imperceptibly blend ; 

 lower portion of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bril- 

 liant ultramarine, the latter slightly tinged with a cobalt lustre ; 

 tail brilliant cobalt, more especially on the under surface, the 

 shafts black, and the two outer tail-feathers elongated, the 

 ends being black, glossed with blue, all the tail-coverts barred 

 indistinctly in some lights ; lower part of the breast, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts deep ultramarine-blue, with a faint cobalt 

 lustre on the latter; thighs also ultramarine, but brilliant 

 cobalt on the inner side of the leg, just above the tarsal joint ; 



