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legs reddish brown. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0*85, 

 wing 5'9, tail 3*9, tarsus 1'05. 



Hab. Seychelles. 



My description, as well as the colour of the bill and legs, 

 is taken from a male specimen in my own collection from the 

 island o£ Marianne. 



VII. Chalcopelia. Type. 



Chalcopelia, Bp. Compt. Rend. xl. 1855, p. 19 . . C. afi'a. 

 Chalcopeleia, Reichb. Taub. 1855, p. 78 (correction) C. afra. 



I shall include three species in this genus, C. puella, 

 C. brehmeri, and C. afra. 



Although I keep C. brehmeri as a distinct species, it 

 appears to me probable that it will prove only to be a variety 

 constituting a more or less constant race. 



With C. afra I unite C. chalcospilos , Wagl., as I have no 

 doubt that they are mere varieties of one species. 



35. Chalcopelia puella. 



Peristera puella, Schl. Bijdrag tot de Dierk, 1848, p. 17, 

 pi. (good); Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 208; 1855, p. 261; 

 Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 321, Cape Lopez ; Hartl. 

 Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, pp. 198, 275 ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 

 1859, p. 143, Gamma, Ogobai, and Muni rivers ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 387, Fantee; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 71, Gold Coast. 



Chalcopelia puella, Bp. Compt. Rend. 1855, p. 19. 



Chalcopeleia puella, Reichb. Taub. 1855, p. 78, pi. 245. 

 fig. 2593 (bad) . 



Head, upper half of the neck, and back of the lower neck 

 cobalt-blue, fading into bluish white towards the forehead, 

 chin, and centre of the upper throat ; a narrow black band 

 from the eye to the lores ; remainder of the plumage bright 

 rufous, rather darker above, where it inclines to chestnut ; 

 lower throat and sides of the lower neck shaded with vinous ; 

 quills inclining to dark brown; a few of the inner greater 

 wing-coverts and largest scapulars have boldly marked metal- 

 lic golden-green blotches on their outer webs ; the six centre 



