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and Great Namaqua Land about the beginning of the rainy season, 
mostly leaving again upon the return of the dry, but Mr. Andersson 
suspected that afew pairs occasionally remained and bred, as young 
birds are to be found throughout the year. He gives the food as 
consisting of worms, berries, and insects, chiefly small coleoptera. 
Mr. Frank Oates also found beetles and sand in the stomach of one 
specimen which he shot, and beetles and grasshoppers in another. 
It has been procured by Senor Anchieta at Humbe on the Cunene 
River, and on the River Coroca. 
General colour, cinereous ; shoulder and upper part of wings, white ; 
rest of wing and tail black, or dark brown, with green reflections. 
Mr. Ayres gives the soft parts as follows :—“Ivis very light brown ; 
bill pale on the upper, and pink on the lower mandible ; the bare skin 
about the eye (which in some examples extends over the occiput), light 
yellow ; wattles about the head and chin, black; tarsi and feet pale.” 
The female differs in not having the naked head, the latter being of 
the same colour as the back. Length, 8” 6”’; wing, 4” 6”; tail, 2”10”’. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pls. 93, 94. 
403. Lamprotornis muvust, Wahid. Meves’ Glossy Starling. 
The members of the genus Lamprotornis differ from those of 
Lamprocolius in their elongated tails. 
Meves’ Glossy Starling was discovered by the late Professor 
Wahlberg in Damara Land, where also Mr. Andersson procured it 
at Ovaquenyama in June and July, 1867. Senor Anchieta has met 
with it at Humbe, and the late Mr. Frank Oates obtained a male bird 
on the Nata River during his journey to the Victoria Falls on the 5th 
of December, 1874. 
General colour purplish and violet, including the throat and 
breast, the lower breast and abdomen coppery with violet reflec- 
tions; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts coppery, slightly 
shot with reddish violet; wing-coverts like the back; quills 
blackish, externally purplish or violet blue; tail-feathers violet 
blue, shot with purple and plainly barred under certain lights; tail 
and legs black; iris hazel (Andersson). Total length, 14 inches; 
culmen, 0°5 ; wing, 6°15; tail, 8°38; tarsus, 1°4. 
405. Lamprorornis purpureus, Bocage. Bocage’s Glossy Starling. 
This specimen was discovered by Senor Anchieta in Mossamedes 
