SENEGAL RED-FOOTED PROMEROPS. 



Promerops Senegalensis^ SWAINS. 



Black, glossed with greenish-blue ; purple upon the neck and 

 chin ; spurious wings, quills, and four lateral tail-feathers, 

 with white spots ; bill black, red at the base, and almost 

 straight. 



Falcinellus Senegalensis, Vieill. Ency. Meth. 580. Epimachus 

 melanorhynchos, Systema Avium^ i. No. 1. 



WE have received from Senegal two or three speci- 

 mens of a Promerops, which very well agrees with 

 the description of that called by Yieillot Senegalen- 

 sis, excepting, that instead of the bill and feet 

 being black, the bill is black and red and the feet 

 entirely red. M. Yieillot indeed mentions, that 

 another specimen of his Senegalensis which he ex 

 amined was four inches shorter, and the feet were 

 red. On comparing our Senegal specimens with 

 one of the P. eryihrorynchos of authors, we find 

 they are almost precisely of the same size ; that 

 the white spots on the wings and tail are the same ; 

 and that the feet of all three are red. The Senegal 



* " Rostro pedilusque niyris" Vieill. Ency. Meth. 580. 



