ONYCHOGNATUUS FULGIDUS 97 



&'. Primaries paler; first long primary with entire basal 

 half pale, 

 c^. Tail more rounded, graduation less than 1 inch ; 

 sexes alike in plumage, 

 c^. Under surface of primaries darker cinnamon 



with blackish ends f rater, 'o i 



d^. Under surface of primaries paler sandj' buff with 



pale dusky ends caffar. /o '. 



A'^. Tail more graduated, graduation more than 1 inch, 

 e^. Bill stouter ; culmen more curved. 



a*. Outer web of first primary cinnamon nearly to 

 the end ; adult females with the head grey 

 streaked with glossy violet. 



a«. Wing 5-3 to 6-3; tail 5-1 to 6'1 viorio. '<'J~ 



h"-. Wing 6-1 to 6-6 ; tail 5-8 to 6-8 riicppelli ^ '. 



b*. Outer web of first long primary with the end 

 half black ; adult females with the head and 



neck uniform grey hlythi. ' " ? 



p. Bill very slender ; culmen nearly straight . . . tcnuirostris. i|? 

 b. Nostrils covered by hair-like plumes. 



c^. Bill white ; tail rounded, shorter than wing ; no large 

 lump of bristly feathers on the forehead ; adult 



females with the head and neck grey albirosiris. I IV, 



(?'. Bill black ; tail long and strongly graduated, a lump 



of bristly feathers on front of crown salvadorii. \ \ ', 



Onyohogaathus falgidus. 



Onychognathus fulgidus, Uartl. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 49-5, pi. 14, 

 figs. 2, 3, 57. Thomas Isl. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 165 (1890) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 619 (1896) ; Eeicheu. Yog. Afr. ii. p. 701 

 (1903); Salvad. Ac. Sc. Torino, 1903, p. 31; Socage, Jorn. Lisb. 

 1904, p. 78 St. Thomas Isl. 



"Onychognathus sancti-thomae, Hartl." Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1889, p. 35. 

 St. Thomas Isl. 



Amydrus fulgidus, Neum. J. f. 0. 1904, p. 569, St. Thomas Isl. 



Adult mala. Plumage, with the exception of the piimaries, glossy blue 

 black with a violet shade on the crown, lower neck, back, upper tail- 

 coverts, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, breast, thighs and under tail- 

 coverts ; remainder of head and neck, portion of wing and the tail glossed 

 with green ; primaries dark cinnamon above, slightly paler beneath, with 

 the outer quill and broad ends to the others black. Iris red ; bill brownish 



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