Mr Blackwall on a new Species of Lamprotornis. 333 



L. Vigor sii. Bill and legs black ; plumage soft, silky, and glos- 

 sy ; head, sides, and back of the neck, upper part of the back and 

 lesser wing-coverts bright green, tinged with gold ; scapulars 

 and lower part of the back of a rich bronze-yellow ; greater 

 wing-coverts, feathers of the spurious wings, tertials, and the 

 tips and upper part of the outer web of the primary quills deep 

 purple, relieved with violet, blue, and gold ; lower part of the 

 exterior web of the primaries dull green ; inner webs of the 

 primaries and secondaries black, faintly clouded with purple, 

 those of the four longest quill feathers in each wing being 

 abruptly emarginated near their termination, a prominent point, 

 formed by the projection of the more elongated fibres of the 

 web, rendering the sudden transition in its breadth remarkably 

 conspicuous ; outer webs of the secondary quills black, with a 

 bright tint of bronze-yellow ; tail rounded at its extremity, 

 black, with a slight mixture of bronze-yellow above, particular- 

 ly on the middle feathers ; tip, and outer edges of the lateral 

 feathers purple, glossed with violet, blue, and green ; upper 

 and under tail- coverts purple, varied with violet, steel-blue, and 

 green ; cheeks purple, tinged with green ; throat and anterior 

 part of the neck and breast similar in colour to the scapulars, 

 but less brilliant ; abdomen bronze-green, tinged with yellow; 

 thighs and Hanks purple, clouded with violet and steel blue ; 

 under side of the wings and tail black. Colour of the eyes not 

 known. 



Total length, 1 1 fa inches ; bill, from the point to the fore- 

 head, j ! '„ ; from the point to the gape, 1 j*„ ; wings, from the 

 carpus to the tip of the fourth quill feather, G, 1 ,, ; tail, 4j 7 u ; 

 tarsi, 1/,, ; middle toe, including the claw, 1 ,'-',,. 



As the two individuals of the above species in the Man- 

 chester Museum were imported to this country from Brazil, along 

 with a considerable collection of skins of Brazilian birds, it is 

 possible that this elegant creature may he indigenous in South 

 America. I have no positive information, however, that such 

 is the fact ; and M. Temminck, in treating upon the family to 



