LAMPROTORNIS CHRYSONOTIS G7 



dorff), Tingasi, Bukoba (Emin), Mjonjo, Sesse Island (Stuhl- 

 mann), Kavirondo, Nandi (Jackson), Upper Gelo Eiver, and 

 the Benesho, Kaffa and Konto countries (Neumann). 



Mr. Jackson (" Ibis," 1899, p. 593) writes from Kavirondo, 

 April 7 : " Plentiful in the patch of open forest near Clarke's 

 bridge over the Ichaka River." And from Nandi, August 29 : 

 " Now in pairs and breeding. Makes a nest of dry grass in 

 holes in trees from 20 to 30 feet above the ground. The cock 

 birds are very noisy, but many of their notes are pleasant. 

 When flying they make a loud swishing noise with their 

 wings. They would make splendid cage birds." 



I do not understand why the name Turdus splendidus 

 Vieill., should have been applied to any other species than the 

 present one. 



Lamprotornis chrysonotis. 



Lamprotornis chrysonotis, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 143, pi. 6. (1837) 



W. Africa. 

 " Juida luxuosa, Less," Hartl. Abhandl. Bremen, 1874, p. 55. 

 Juida lessoni, Pucher. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1858, pp. 256-259 Fernando Po. 

 ? Lamprocolius defilippi, Salvad. Atti. R. Ac. Torino, 1865, p. 371. 

 Lamprocolius chubbi, Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. p. 48 (1903) 



Fernando Po ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii.p. 694 (1903) ; Alexander, Ibis, 



1903, p. 357. 

 Lamprocolius splendidus (uon Vieill.) Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 172, pi. 7 



fig, 4 head (1890, $ ) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 594 (1896 pt.) ; 



Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 692 (1903). 



Adult male. Differs only from the Eastern form, L. splendidus, in having 

 the entire throat steel blue with scarcely any or no red shade ; entire top of 

 the head and back of neck uniform green, with no blue shade on the back 

 of the head. Iris pale yellow ; bill and feet black. Total length 11-6 

 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 5-8, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-2. Gambia (Whiteley). 



Adult female. Smaller, with little or no bronzy red on the chest ; patch 

 on sides of neck behind the ear-coverts violet with scarcely any copper 

 shade ; wing 5-2. J , Gambia Eiver (Kinder). 



Immature. Differs in having the forehead, sides of head and the under 



