8 HYPOCHERA ULTRAMARINA 
Hypochera ultramarina. 
Fringilla ultramarina, Gm. 8. N. ii. p. 927 (1788) Abyssinia. 
Hypochera ultramarina, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 309 (1890) ; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 306 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 218 (1904). 
Differs from H. chalybeata only in the gloss on the plumage of the males 
being violet shaded blue, with no green. 
The Ultramarine Combasou ranges from the Gold Coast to 
the Niger and eastward over Northern Tropical Africa to as 
far north at 23° N. lat. 
Hartlaub refers a specimen in the Bremen Museum from 
the Gold Coast to this form, which can hardly be regarded as 
more than a subspecies of H. chalybeata. In Togoland it 
has been obtained by Mr. Biittner at Bismarckburg and by 
Lieut. Thierry at Mangu. In the British Museum there are 
specimens from Abeokuta and from Rabba on the Niger. 
Dr. Hartert refers the specimen he procured at Loko to 
H. ultramarina, and one obtained by Wilson at Yelwa, in the 
Borgu province of Central Nigeria, he makes the type of a new 
species, H. wilsoni. In Hquatorial Africa specimens have 
been collected by Emin at Lado and Rimo ; the former 
Dr. Hartert refers to H. ultramarina and the latter to 
H. xnea. Mr. Oscar Neumann refers a specimen shot in 
Uganda in May to H. purpurascens, and one from Kavirondo, 
killed in February, to H. ultramarina. To this latter form 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe refers all Fischer's specimens, and those 
obtained by Mr. Jackson at Kikumbuliu in December, and at 
Njemps in July, which had the bill whitish horn colour and 
the legs pink, and remarks that they agree with the series 
in the British Museum from Abyssinia and the White Nile. 
In Somaliland the genus has been met with by M. Revoil. 
In Southern Abyssinia Lord Lovat shot a full plumaged male 
at the Kassim River, January 18, 1899, and according to his 
notes the bill and legs were pale coral. Quite black examples 
