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have frequently watched three or four playing together, hopping from 
bough to bough, depressing and expanding their tails, and at 
intervals displaying the rich crimson on their wings. There are few 
more striking birds than the present one and some of the allied 
species as they fly gracefully across the path in front, or are watched 
during their quaint but pleasing gambols.” 
In the Zambesi regions, writes Dr. Kirk,—* this was the common 
species of the plains, but was not noticed high up in the mountains. 
They are found in pairs and in small flocks.” 
General colour, dark, iridescent green, with steel-blue reflections 
on the back, wings, and tail; head slightly crested, shining green 
and blue; under parts a dull green, with a reddish tinge on the 
breast; wings, when expanded, display the same brilliant carmine, 
glossed with purple, as seen in 0, musophaga; bill and legs black ; 
eyelids scarlet ; iris dark brown. Totallength, 17 inches ; wing, 7:0; 
tail, 8:0; tarsus, 1°6. 
Fig. Schlegel and Westerm. Toerak. pl. 3. 
130. CoryYTHAIx LIVINGsToNI. Livingstone’s Plantain-Hater. 
This beautiful species was first discovered by the Zambesi 
Exploring Expedition. Dr. Kirk writes as follows: “ It is peculiar to 
the mountains south of Lake Nyanza, where it was seen by Dr. 
Livingstone and myself in 1859, when passing to Lake Shirwa. On 
that occasion we noticed it in the ravine at the foot of the hills within 
a few miles of the river, but on no subsequent occasion was it seen so 
lowdown. Itismost common near a hill called Sochi, and in the 
wooded river-banks of the region near the late Bishop Mackenzie’s 
mission-station.”” It likewise occurs in South Western Africa, 
where Monteiro discovered it in Benguela. He gives the following 
note concerning it: ‘ They are sometimes brought to Benguela for 
sale by the negroes from Bibé. Appears to be much rarer than the 
CU. erythrolopha. I have seen both pretty abundantly to the interior 
of Novo Redondo.” 
Senor Anchieta has also met with it in the same country, and at 
Capangombe and Biballa in Mossamedes. 
General colour, above green, with edgings of metallic darker green 
to most of the feathers, especially the wing-coverts; innermost 
secondaries green like the back, the primaries deep crimson, exter- 
