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CATALOGUE OF CORACILA AND TROGONES, 17 
mosambicus, Dresser. Five. 2¢, 2. South Africa (Damaraland, Swakop 
R., April ; Orange Free State, Kroonstadt). 
temmincki (Vieill.). Four. North Celebes. 
No. 3, purchased by Lord Derby at the sale of the Bullock Collection, was brought 
to Europe by La Perouse. 
cyanogaster, Cv. Three. ¢. West Africa (Gambia; Ashantee). 
EURYSTOMUS, Viei//. 
glaucurus (P. L. S. Mill.). Ten. 34,39, juv. Madagascar (Mohambo, 
November). 
afer (uth). Six. o, 1 jr. West Africa (Gambia; Accra, April). 
Central Africa (Nyassaland, Zomba, August). South-East Africa (Newala 
River). 
afer, subsp. rufobuccalis, Rchnw. J.f.0., 1892, p. 57. Two. Central 
Africa (Uganda, Busogo). 
2 ‘Differs from the normal colouration of the species considerably in having the sides 
of the head plain, reddish brown, without any tinge of violet like the crown ; 
the two central tail feathers are, excepting the black terminal portion, washed 
with reddish brown on a black ground ; the upper tail-coverts are only blue on 
the sides, the central ones being reddish brown. of sh. t Ue» (Renchenow, 
Jide Dresser, Mon. Corac. p. 60). Hatitat. Uganda (Manjonjo). 
Captain Shelley does not recognise this subspecies in his “‘ Birds of Africa,” and 
Mr. Dresser (l.c.) includes it with a query under the synonyms of Z. afer, though 
the specimen he figured, apparently from Abyssinia, bears out Dr. Reichenow’s 
remarks concerning the sides of the head. 
In our specimens from Uganda the purple colouration of. the sides of the head, 
though perhaps just perceptible, is very much less marked than in any of the 
others ; the lower row of upper tail-coverts is blue all round, though the upper 
ones are mixed with chestnut in the centre ; the whole of the centre pair of tail 
feathers, except the upper portion of the shaft region, is blackish brown, with a 
suggestion of brownish grey towards the edges, not reddish brown as in Dr. 
Reichenow’s description. The black terminal band of the outer tail feathers is 
more extensive, and the blue subterminal one is less so, and darker in colour than 
in the specimens from other localities. 
It is impossible to say to what form the specimen from Newala, recorded under Z. 
afer, really belongs, as it is an immature bird with greenish blue under surface. 
gularis, Vicill. Six. 1 jr. West Africa (Axim; Wassaw, Erriemill ; Cape 
Coast Castle). 
An immature specimen from Cape Coast Castle differs from the others, and from 
Dresser’s figure and description of the young bird, in having the upper throat 
and breast chestnut of the same colour as the upper surface, which is somewhat 
duller than in the adult. The bird seems to attain its adult plumage by a direct 
change of colour in the feather, as some of the greenish lower breast feathers 
have chestnut shaft-stripes, while the chestnut feathers immediately above these 
have greenish tips and edges. 
orientalis (Linn.). Seventeen. 2 6, 2 jr. Malay Peninsula (Pahang, 
January ; Penang, April; Singapore). _ Sumatra. Borneo (Banjer- 
massim ; Labuan, October, December). Talaut Islands (Lirung, May). 
Philippine Islands. China. 
We have followed Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 1891, pp. 99-102) and Dr. Blanford (Faun. 
Brit. Ind. Aves, iii. p. 107, 1895), in not accepting L. calonyx. According to-Dr. 
Sharpe, three specimens from China, collected by Fortune, should belong to this 
form. Of these specimens one is perfectly adult and two are immature, as shown 
by the blackish bill, and the absence of the purplish blue gular spot. The 
wing of the adult bird is 777, and it has no blue whatever on the terminal half of 
the tail, exactly agreeing with the male specimen from Sumatra, collected by 
Wallace. The immature specimens have the wing 7°35 and 7‘5, and the outer 
web of the tail feathers deep ultramarine blue and tipped with greenish. This 
is the case, but to a less extent, with a specimen from Labuan collected in October, 
which is not quite adult, and which has the wing only 7 inches. The other 
specimen from Labuan collected in December, which is quite adult, has the wing 
7°5, and no blue on the terminal portion of the tail. An adult specimen from 
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