120 SENEGAL RED- FOOTED PROMEROPS. 



extends also to the outer webs, while the three first 

 secondaries have merely a small white spot on their 

 inner webs : the tail is long and cuneated ; the 

 three outermost feathers have a double white spot 

 near their tips (closer to each other than in ery- 

 throrynchos\ and a single white spot on the outer 

 w T eb of the fourth pair of feathers, but there is 

 none upon the middle pair: these latter, in some 

 lights, have very little green, but are rich lilac, 

 mixed with the blue. 



The immature bird has the throat rufous brown, 

 while, in what we consider as the female, the bill 

 is half an inch shorter ; that is, measuring only one 

 inch and a half from the front. 



Total length, with the tail, about 16| inches; 

 bill, from the front, 2 T 1 i j ; from the rictus or gape, 

 2^-; wings, 5|; tail beyond, 7; ditto, from the 

 base, 9|. 



LITTLE PALE- WINGED PROMEROPS. 



Promerops pusillus, SWAINS. 



Black, glossed with purple ; spurious wings and quills spotted 

 with white ; tail slightly rounded, immaculate ; ends of 

 the primary quills greyish white. 



WE can find no description in any modern author 

 applicable to this singularly small species, which is 

 not bigger than a lark, although its tail renders it 

 much larger. Of those enumerated in Audubert 



