tlie Jilai-l--faced Lore- Bird. 17 



The Museum collection contains the followino- series : — 

 -(?(?: and 1 sex not given, fi-om German S.W. Africa. 

 29.8.06. 



1 ? from North-western Rhodesia. 4.7.0G. 



2 unsexed from North-western Rhodesia. Sept. 1907. 

 7 ? ? „ 



Coloration. — In the article above-mentioned Mr. Reginald 

 Phillipps describes three living birds which he purchased in 

 England, a c?, a ? , and an immature c^. I agree in the 

 main with his remarks on the coloration of the adult bird, 

 but would supplement them by the following : — 



Fully adult birds have the forehead and crowm for a 

 l)readth of quite 15 mm. sienna-brown ; hinder crown and 

 nape olive-green with a yellowish tinge, this colour extending 

 down the sides of the neck and meeting the salmon-pink of 

 the lower throat and upper breast ; this latter is paler in 

 some specimens, of a bright salmon-pink in others, extending 

 in a point on to the middle of the upper breast, the shafts of 

 the feathers being dark brown. Cheeks and upper throat 

 dusky brown (almost black on the chin), fading into paler 

 (sienna) brown on the edges below the cheeks and on the ear- 

 coverts. Under surface bright pale green washed with 

 yellowish, this wash being more conspicuous on the sides of 

 the body and flanks. The centre tail-feathers are shaded with 

 dusky towards the tip, forming a broad ill-defined bar ; the 

 remaining tail-feathers have a conspicuous subterminal black 

 bar about 7 mm. in breadth, which, however, does not extend 

 to the outer web of the outer tail-feathers, but there appears 

 as a mere dusky band extending in a streak for some 

 distance up the web. There is no difference apparent in the 

 coloration of the sexes, the slight variations in shades being 

 present in both sexes. 



In some specimens (innnaturc presumabl}^) the back is 

 washed with drabbish-brown and the under surface with pale 

 blue-green. The salmon-pink of the breast is very pale, even 

 ill-defined in some examples. 



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