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AGAPORNIS PULLARTA. 193 
merely occupies such as they have abandoned; but in the case of 
the first-named species, I have seen the Parrots and the Grosbeaks 
incubating in about equal numbers under the shelter of the same 
friendly roof. The egg is pure white, not unlike a Woodpecker’s, 
but more elongated.” | 
Mr. Andersson also procured it in Ondonga, and Mr. Monteiro 
says that it is very abundant from Mossamedes to Novo Redondo. 
Senor Anchieta has sent specimens from Capangombe and the river 
Chimba in the same district, as well as from Humbe on the Cunene 
river as well as from Kattenbella in Benguela, where also Mr. Sala 
met with the bird: it probably occurs on the West Coast of Africa 
as far up as the Gaboon, as a specimen from the latter locality is in 
the editor’s collection. 
General colour pale green; forehead and eyebrows red; face and 
neck in front, rosy; lower wing-coverts, blue-green; rump and 
upper tail-coyerts, azure; tail scarlet, tipped with green, before 
which is a sub-terminal black band, the centre feathers entirely 
green, the outer webs edged with green, “ bill greenish-white; legs 
blue with the faintest tinge of green; iris intensely dark brown” 
(Andersson). Length, 6’’; wing, 4.0°77; tail, 2’’; tarsus, 0°5. 
Fig. Bourjot, Perrogq. pl. 91. 
174, AGAPORNIS PULLARIA. West-African Lovebird. 
This species is included in the present work on the strength of a 
statement made by Dr. Reichenow in his account of the birds sent 
by the German expedition to West Africa, viz.—that many speci- 
mens of this small Parrot are exported from the Coast stations of 
Benguela as well as Loango. We can understand its occurrence in 
the latter locality, but we think that as A. roseicollis is the only 
Lovebird known as yet to inhabit Benguela, some confirmation is 
necessary before the present one can be received as a South African 
bird ; at the same time the Rosy-faced Lovebird certainly occurs in 
Western Africa, above the Quanza, and it is by no means impossible, 
therefore, that A. pullaria is also found both above and below this 
river. 
General colour grass-green, including the ear-coverts and sides of 
neck; under surface of the body brighter green than the back; 
frontal band, remainder of sides of face and throat, red; rump 
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