78 LAMPROTORNIS PURPUREDS 



Nordman's Glossy Starling ranges from Seneganabia into 

 the Upper White Nile district. 



The type came from Senegambia, and the species has been 

 procured near Bathurst (Eendall), Casamause (Verreaux), 

 Bissao (Fea), Los Island (Paris Mus.)- Ussher .writes : 

 " Tolerably common up the Yolta, where it is to be observed 

 in small flocks. I have also received it from Fantee and the 

 Accra district." At the latter place it has likewise been 

 obtained by Haynes and Dr. Eeichenow. In Togoland it 

 has been met with at Krachi by Mr. Zech, and at Jendi by 

 Mr. Thierry. 



In the White Nile district Heuglin procured a single 

 specimen at Bongo ; Emin obtained two at Tarangola and 

 one at Fatico, so the species is apparently rare throughout 

 its range, as I do not find it mentioned from any other 

 localites. 



Lamprotornis purpureus. 



Turdus purpureus, P. L. S. Miill. S. N. Suppl. p. 143 (1776) Tlab ? 

 Lamprocolius purpureus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 175, pi. 8, fig. 1, licad 



(1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 603 (1896); Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. 



p. G91 (1903). 

 Turdus juida3, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 31 (1783) ex Brlss. 

 Turdus auratus (non Miill,), Gm. S. N. ii. p. 819 (1788) Whidah. 

 Turdus splendens, Leach, Z. Misc. ii. p. 30, pi. 71 (1815). 

 Lamprotornis lucida, Nordmau in Erman's Keise, p. 8, pi. 3 (1835) 



Senegal. 

 Lamprotornis ptilonorhynchus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 140 (1837) 



Senegal. 

 Lamprotornis amethystinus, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1863, p. 21 Gazelle B. 

 Lamprocolius purpureus amethystinus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 692 



(1903). 

 Lamprocolius auratus orientalis, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1869, p. 7 Gazelle E. 



Adult. Head glossy reddish violet like the under parts generally, 

 passing through a steel blue shade on the nape and back of neck into 

 glossy golden green on the mantle, which colour again shades into steel 



