68 LAMPROTORNIS CHRYSOXOTIS 



parts brown, upper parts more uniform green with no blnck on the wing- 

 coverts, and only an obsolete trace of a dark bar across the secondaries ; the 

 notches on the inner webs of the priniaries slightly smaller. 



The Western Splendid Gloss}- Starling- ranges from 8ene- 

 gambia to Fernando Po. 



The locaHty from whence Swainson's type came is not 

 known, hut it was prol^alily Senegambia, where Marchc and 

 De Compiegne have collected specimens at Daranka, and at 

 Sedhiou, close to Casamanse from whence it has been received 

 by Vcrreaux. Dr. P. Kendall calls the species rare at the 

 Gambia, but in the British Museum there are four specimens 

 from that locality, and there has recently been added to the 

 collection b}' Mr. E. Seimund foiu- males and three females 

 from Fernando Po, which prove that Jiiirla h'>i-s(iiii, Pucheran 

 and Lamprocoliua rlinhhi, Alexander, are females of this 

 species. In the Bissagos group this Starling has been pro- 

 cured on Bulama Island by both Barahona and Damacens. 

 In the Berlin ]Museum there are specimens from Konakri on 

 the coast opposite Los Island, and Tapa in the Hinterland of 

 Togo. 



The first mention of the species from Fernando I'o is by 

 Fraser (P, Z. S., 1843, p. /)'2), who wi-ites : '' Lamjiraturnis 

 clirysniiotis, Fernando Po. Very shy : irides white, l)ill and 

 legs black, nostrils large and open. Caws somewhat like a 

 Crow ; makes a bvui-ing noise like a parrot when l)eginning 

 to fly ; lives in the loftiest trees. The gizzard contained 

 small seed and red berries." 



The noisy flight of this species, of L. .yjh'itdiihis and of L. 

 ornatiiH, has been remarked by Fraser, Jackson and Keule- 

 mans, and the latter naturalist remarks that it may be caused 

 b}' the peculiar form of the quills, the four longest of which 

 have a large notch on the inner webs, which has been figured 

 by Swainson (B. W. Afr., i. p. 145). 



