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Mr. Jameson’s expedition, states that the note is different. It 
occurs in the Zambesi region, and extends up the east coast of 
Africa. Senor Anchieta has also procured it ab Humbe: on the 
Cunene River, as well as at Huilla and Gambos. Professor Bocage 
has likewise included the North-east African L. chalybeus as being 
found in Beneuela, but in his latest work he has referred the 
specimen to L. sycobius. 
Total length, 84 inches ; culmen, 0°95 ; wing, 4°9; tail, 3°5 ; tarsus, 
1°25. 
408. Lamprocolivs acuTicaupus, Bocage. Sharp-tailed Glossy Thrush. 
This is another of Senor Anchieta’s discoveries in Southern 
Angola, where he found it at Huillaand Caconda. It is closely allied 
to L. pheenicopterus, but differs in the form of its tail, the dark ashy 
grey colour of the under surface of the quills, and other minor 
particulars. 
_ The following description is translated from Professor Barboza 
du Bocage :— 
Brilliant greenish-gold; the ear-coverts steel-blue; a scapular spot 
of violet-purple with a coppery gloss: median wing-coverts marked 
at the tip with a small satiny black spot; under wing-coverts black 
spotted with violet; primary quills and secondaries blackish above, 
brilliant green at the tip and on the outer web, underneath ashy ; 
the tail elongated and graduated, uniform with the back on the 
upper surface, and conspicuously banded under certain lights, 
blackish on the under surface; bill slender and black, as also the 
feet; iris orange-yellow. Total length, 9°9 inches; wing, 5°05; 
tail, 4°25; bill, 0°85; tarsus, 1°15. 
Fig. Bocage, Orn. Angola, pl. vi. 
409. Lamprocotivs nirsns, L. Angolan Glossy Starling. 
This West African species just strays within our limits in South- 
western Africa, having been met with by Senor Anchieta at 
Capangombe in Benguela. 
Brilliant metallic green; some of the lesser wing-coverts having a 
rather large violet-blue spot; quills and tail-feathers blackish under- 
neath; under wing-coverts tinged externally and at the tip with 
