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the eyes, and another longer beneath the eyes ; the whole back and upper tail- 
coverts, wing-coverts, and innermost primaries metallic green; tail feathers 
metallic blue, beneath dull blue; the primaries purple red, their tips bordered 
with bluish black; the external web and tip of the outer primaries, with the 
whole of the first primary, blackish blue; the inner primaries blue, or metallic 
green at the base; flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts, slate-colour shaded with 
green; under wing-coverts slate black; bill black, base of the mandible red ; 
feet black; iris pale brown. Total length, 425 mm. ; wing, 160-170; tail, 180; 
bill, 21-22; tarsus, 36.” (Reichenow). Habitat. Central Africa (Bundako, 
Uvamba ; Mumbo; Vundekakare ; Karévia, Ukondjo). 
corythaix (Wagl.). Six. 3. [West Africa]. South Africa (Port Natal ; 
Cape of Good Hope). 
The locality of Nos. 4, 5, and 6 ( = 3256, 3257, 3258, Lord Derby’s Mus.) coming, 
according to the labels, from ‘‘ West Africa,” whence 7’. corythaix has not been 
recorded, may be erroneous. 
schuetti (Cab.). (= 7. corythaiz, Rendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 168). One. South 
Africa (Transvaal, De Kaap, Moodies, August). 
The locality where this specimen was collected by Dr. P. Rendall is the most 
southerly hitherto recorded. 
macrorhynchus (Fras.). One. West Africa (Accra). 
meriani (/tiipp.). Two. ¢. West Africa. 
fischeri (/tchnw.). Two. East Africa (Pangani River, Ushambala Mts. ; 
Ribé). 
erythrolophus (V7cill). One. 9. 
leucolophus, Heugl. One. ¢. Central Africa (Faradjak, September). 
hartlaubi (Fisch. & Rehnw.). 
donaldsoni, Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C. iv. p. xxxii. (1895); 2d. Ibis, 1895, p. 381 ; id. P.Z.S. 
1895, pl. xxviii. 
*‘Distincuished by the pileum being green in front and pale scarlet behind, and 
by a large white spot in front of the eyes. Total length, 16°5 inches ; wing, 7:2.” 
(Sharpe.) Habitat. Meo, Western Somaliland. 
ruspolii, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xvi., p. 44 (1896). 
Turacus sp., Matschie, J.f.0. 1896, p. 94. 
“<Sinciput and sides of the head above the eyes, greenish grey ; compressed crest 
whitish, very slightly tinged with greenish, washed with rose at the base of the 
feathers, and red at the lowest part of the posterior portion; cheeks, neck, 
upper back, and chest olive green, cheeks more yellowish ; throat apparently 
greyish green; back and wings steel blue; primaries red, margined with steel 
blue; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull grey ; tail steel green, with a slight 
bluish lustre; bill and warts on the eyelids red; feet dark. Total length, 
400 mm. ; wing, 180; tail, 200; culmen, 24; tarsus, 42.” (Salvadori). Habitat. 
Lake Bissan Abbaia, Somaliland. 
GALLIREX, Less. 
porphyreolophus (/7y.). Five. South Africa. 
chlorochlamys, Shelley. One. East Africa (Dar-es-Salaam). 
Type of species (Shelley, Ibis, 1881, p. 118). 
MUSOPHAGA, /sert. 
violacea, Jsert. Eight. ¢, 2, skeleton. West Africa (Gambia, Barra). 
rosse, Gould. 
CORYTHAOLA, Heine. 
cristata (Vicill.). Four. West Africa (Fantee). 
SCHIZORHIS, Wag’. 
africana (Lath.). Seven. West Africa (Gambia, Bathurst, August). 
No. 5 (= 104, Lord Derby’s Mus.) is the Type of Fishing Falcon, Lath. Gen. 
Hist, i. pp. 156-157 (1822). 
