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Coracina azurea (Pl. 52, fig. 2), 
Graucalus azureus, Cassin, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1851 p. 348 St. Paul's 
River, Liberia ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. p. 27 (1879) ; Oustalet, Nat. 
1893, p. 126; Sjostedt, Sven. Vet. Akad. Handl. xxvii. art. i. p. 76 
(1895); Shelley B. Afr. i. No. 685 (1896); Alexander, Ibis, 1902, 
p. 809 Gold Coast Colony; Ogilvie Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. 
p- 390 (1910) Ltwrt forest. 
Coracina azurea, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 516 (1903); Sharpe, Ibis, 
: 1907, p. 457 Camaroon; Reichen. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. y. 1910, 
p. 82 Rio Benito. 
Campophaga ccerulea, Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) xvii. art. 8, p. 1 (1884) 
Mayumba, Congo. 
Adult male. Forehead, sides of head in front of the eyes and the chin 
black; remainder of head and neck bright blue, gradually fading into a 
slightly paler and more verditer blue on the body, upper and under tail- 
coverts, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and the whole of the exposed portion 
of the secondaries when the wing is closed; greater wing-coverts, remainder 
of quills and the tail-feathers black, with narrow blue edges; under surface 
of quills uniform dusky black ; under wing-coverts blue like the body. Iris 
red; bill and feet black. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 4:35, 
tail 3:8, tarsus 0:8. Gaboon (Brit. Mus.). 
Adult female. Differs only in the black of the head being confined to 
a band from the eyes round the forehead, while the head and neck are 
of the same shade of blue as the body. Wing 4:35. Fantee (Ussher). 
Immature. Similar to the female above described, but differs in having 
some white terminal margins to the quills, a few of which are broad with 
concentric black bars. Gaboon (Du Chaillu). 
The Blue Cuckoo-Shrike ranges from Liberia to the 
Congo. 
The type was discovered by Dr. McDowell at St. Paul’s 
River in Liberia. Otherwise the species has not been 
recorded from further west than the Gold Coast, in which 
Colony specimens haye been collected at Hnimill (Blissett) 
and in Denkera (Aubinn). Boyd Alexander writes : “ Prahsu 
and Fumsa. Confined to the forest region, where it is 
by no means common.” On following the coast we next 
find it recorded from Camaroon, where specimens have 
been collected at Efulen (Bates), Bipindi (Zenker), Mann’s 
