16 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
URATELORNIS, Rothsch. 
chimaera, Rothsch. Nov. Zool. ii. p. 479 (1895) ; id. op. cit. iii. pl. ii. (1896). 
‘* Upper parts of head and neck, back, rump, and two central pairs of rectrices dull 
rufous brown, variegated with greyish and blackish brown, somewhat in the 
way of a goat-sucker. Third pair of rectrices from the centre, with the apical 
fifth, pale sky blue ; the rest like the middle ones ; the outer three pairs entirely 
uniform sky blue. Scapulars, smaller upper wing-coverts, and innermost 
secondaries of the same colouras the back. Larger upper wing-coverts sky blue. 
Primaries and some of the secondaries blackish, with white bands bordered with 
sky blue, and brown towards the tip. Ear-coverts, sides of head, and neck 
reddish chocolate, variegated with black and white; an irregular white line 
along the sides of the neck. Under surface from chin to vent and under tail- 
coverts white, with a broad, black band across the chest, as in Atelornis pittoides. 
Under wing-coverts white, changing to pale sky blue towards the outer edge. 
Bill black, feet and legs brown. Total length about 18 inches; culmen, 
1375 inch; wing, 4-4; tail, 12; tarsus, 1:9; middle toe without claw, 1 inch.” 
(Rothschild). Habitat. Madagascar. 
CORACIINA. : 
CORACIAS, Linn. 
indicus, Linn. Twelve. ¢. Northern India (Umballa, November ; 
Muddapur, November). Southern India (Nellore ; Madras ; Ootacamund, 
February). 
affinis, MeClell. Three. ¢. Sikkim, January. Assam. 
garrulus, Linn. Twenty-one. 5 6,2 9. Orkneys. Scotland (Dum- 
frieshire, Tynwald). Algeria (Koliah Forest, May). Tunis, March. 
Malta, April. Palestine (Jordan Valley, October; Mt. Tabor, April). 
Syria (Aleppo, May ; Hamath, May; Issa, June). India (Himalayas, 
?Gilgit (Littledale Coll.) ). South Africa (Orange Free State, Kroonstadt, 
December ; Trans Kei). 
abyssinicus, Bodd. Seven. 2 3, 9 (jr). West Africa (Senegal ; Gambia, 
Bathurst, August). Central Africa (White Nile). Abyssinia. [Mozam- 
bique]. 
The specimen from the last-mentioned locality, which is probably erroneous, was 
collected by Salt in 1812 (probably in Abyssinia), and is referred to by Dr. 
Latham as C. bengalensis, Lath. in Salt’s Voyage Abyss. Append. iv. p. 46 
(1814) ; Stanley, t.c. p. 53; Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 73 (1822). The bird, how- 
ever, does not at all agree with Dr. Latham’s description in the General History 
of Birds. 
lorti, Shelley. 
caudatus, Linn. Hight. 2 ¢ (1 jr.) @. East Africa (Victoria Nyanza, 
Nassa ; Kikombo, May ; Zanzibar ; Newala, Rovuma R.; Mozambique). 
South Africa (Buffel’s Kraal, May). 
spatulatus, Zrimen. 
weigalli, Dresser. One. South-East Africa (Newala, Rovuma R.). 
Although Dr. Sharpe has included this species in C. spatulatus (Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xvii. p. 23), it is now generally recognised that the species is distinct. The 
original type has been lost, the specimen above recorded being that referred to 
by Dr. Sclater (Bull. B.O.C. xy. p. 23, 1894); id. Ibis, 1894, p. 299; Tris- 
tram, t.c. p. 320). 
T nevius, Dawud. Six. ¢, 9. West Africa (Bathurst, Gambia, July). 
Kordofan, July. Abyssinia. East Africa (Kikombo, August). 
No. 6 from Abyssinia, collected by Salt in 1812, is the type of C. afra, var. Lath. 
in Salt’s Voyage Abyss. Append. iv. p. 46 (1814); Stanley, t.c. p. 53; Lath. 
Gen. Hist. iii. p. 81 (1822). 
The collector himself states that the bird came from Mozambique, but Dr. Latham 
mentions Abyssinia in the General History. As in the preceding case the bird 
does not agree with the published description of C. afra, var. 
It seems curious that Latham should have regarded this bird as so nearly allied to 
his Coracias afra, which, of course, is an Lurystomus, and one is somewhat in- 
clined to doubt if his name for that species should really be used. 
