64 LAIMPROTORNIS ORNATUS 



Lamprotornis ornatus. 



Sturnus ornatus, Daud. Traite, ii. jj. 309 (1800). 

 Lampvocolius ornatus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 726 (1903). 

 Lamprotornis ignita, Nordm. in Ermaa's Eeise, Atlas, p. 7, pi. 3 (1835) 



Senegal. 

 Juida ignita, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 327, pi. 80 (1846). 

 Lamprocolius ignitus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 174, pi. 7, fig. 1, head 



(1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 593 (1896) ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. 



p. 694 (1903). 

 Le Choucador, Levaill. Ois. Afr. ii. 144, pi. 86 (1799). 



Adult male. Foi'ehead and head in front of the eyes hlack ; crown, hack 

 and sides of neck metallic green, with a blue shade on the nape and next 

 to the mantle ; mantle glossy bronze passing into reddish blue on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; tail black, with a bronze gloss on the edges of the 

 feathers and a broad reddish blue terminal band ; wings, with the lesser 

 coverts green shading into reddish blue on the median coverts which have 

 some bronze and hlack centres ; greater coverts black, with lilac and bronze 

 edges ; secondaries coppery bronze passing towards the primary-coverts into 

 lilac and blue ; remainder of quills black, with greenish blue outer margins 

 and reddish blue ends ; cheeks and ear-coverts violet blue, with a redder 

 margin next to the throat w'hich is bronze like the breast ; this bronze colour 

 extends in an angle on to the neck just behind the cheeks ; sides of abdomen, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts blue shaded with lilac and bronze ; under 

 surface of wings and tail dull black, with the under wing-coverts slightly 

 glossed with bronze and the bend of the wing violet blue. Iris white ; bill 

 and feet black. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-0, wing 6-2, tail 4-4, 

 tarsus 1'4. 



Adult female. Like the male, but smaller. Wing 5-7. J , Prince's 

 Island (Keulemans). 



The Prince's Island Glossy Starling' is, I believe, confined 

 to that island. 



The only specimens I have examined of the species were 

 shot on Prince's Island. It has nominally been procured bv 

 Mr. F. Newton on Fernando Po, by Weiss on St. Thomas" 

 Island, and has also been recorded by Hartlaub from Gaboon 

 (Fosse), and from Angola (Canivet). If the range of the 

 species is not restricted to Prince's Island, but really extends 

 from Fernando Po to St. Thomas' Island, there is no reason 



