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washed with bluish green ; lower half of the back and upper 

 tail-coverts cobalt-blue ; scapulars and wings green^ shading 

 into brown on the inner webs and tips of the quills, which 

 have their shafts also brown ; tail green, partially Avashed 

 with blue, and with an ill- defined rufous terminal edging to 

 all but the four centre feathers ; cheeks, chin, and upper 

 throat white, shading on the remainder of the throat and 

 breast into deep rufous-buff, slightly glossed with green ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts bright cobalt-blue; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margins to the quills rufous-buff; re- 

 mainder of the quills and under surface of the tail ashy brown ; 

 bill and legs black. Total length 6*2 and 6"7 inches, culmen 

 1"1, wing 2*9 and 3*1, tail 2'9, tarsus 0'4. 

 " Common on the plateau/^ 



19. CORACIAS N^VIA. 



Coracias ncevia, Daud. Traite, ii. 1800, p. 258 (Senegal) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 190, part.; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. 1884, p. 114 (Slioa). 



Hab. E. and W. Africa : Abyssinia, Upper White Nile, 

 Somali, Senegambia, and Bissao. 



Coracias pilosa, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 173. 



The two specimens in this collection have the crown pink, 

 not shaded with olive, and thus differ somewhat from the 

 South-African bird, which should, I think, be recognized as 

 a subspecies under the title of C. ncevia levaillanti. 



" First seen about twenty miles south of Berbera, and was 

 afterwards fairly plentiful, generally near water."" 



20. Coracias lokti, sp. n. 



Very similar in size and plumage to C. caudata ; but dif- 

 fers in the lower half of the throat and entire chest being 

 green, of the same colour as the abdomen, the pink of the 

 throat not extending beyond the line of the end of the ear- 

 coverts. Total length 13*2 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 6*3, 

 tail 7, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Somali-land. 



" Seen only on two or three occasions on the plateau. Iris 

 brown, bill black, legs grey.''"' 



