80 LAMPROTORNIS CUPREOCAUDirS 



appears to me veiy doubtful. The specimen obtained by 

 Thomson was more probably- from the Niger than from 

 Fernando Po ; the species has not 3^et been recorded from 

 Camaroons, so I do not beheve in Verreaux having correctly 

 labelled a specimen as coming from Gaboon. 



The following notes refer to L. ]iiirpiii-fii.<i amethijstinua 

 (Heuglin), Eeichcn. Yog. Afr. ii. p. GO-2, which I cannot myself 

 distinguish from the typical Senegal form. These Starlings 

 have been obtained b}" Bohndorf! at Kuchugali and Semio 

 in the Niam-Niam country, by Emin at Fatiko and Wandi ; 

 between this and the Gazelle River, Heuglin found the species 

 plentiful and gave it the two names La))ip)ritn)-)iis conefJiij- 

 sfiiius and L. ainritiis onentalis. Dr. Ansorge has procured it 

 in I'nyoro, and Fischer as far east as Kawango in Kavirondo. 



Lamprotornis cupreocaudus (riate 40, fig. i). 



Lamprocolius " cnpreocauda, Temm. " Hartl. Orn. W. Africa, p. 119 

 (1857) Sierra Leone; Sliavpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 184 (1890) ; Shellev, 

 B. Afr. I. No. G04 (1896) ; Reichen. Yog. Afr. ii. p. 684 (1903). 



Adult. Upper parts deep steel blue, witli the forehead black and the 

 sides of the crown and hack of neck of a reddish violet shade ; a few of 

 the upper tail-coverts bronze ; tail violet shaded black, washed with bronze 

 down the centre and on the outer webs of the other feathers ; primaries, 

 with the ends and inner webs dull bluish black ; in front of eye black ; 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck, chin and throat reddish violet ; breast steel 

 blue like the mantle ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts black glossed 

 with reddish bronze ; under surface of wings and tail brownish black ; the 

 under •wing-coverts glossed with deep steel blue. Iris yellow ; bill and feet 

 black. Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-7, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-95. 

 Fantee (Ussher). 



Immature. Similar to the adults but duller, the black bases of the 

 feathers of the neck and breast showing through the metallic colouring. 



The Copper-tailed Glossy Starling ranges fi-om Sierra 

 Leone over Liberia and the Gold Coast. 



The type is a specimen from Sierra Leone in the Brussels 



