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Length 12-00 to 13-00; wing 5-15; tail 7-50; tarsus 1-45; 

 culmen 0*70. 



Adult female. Somewhat smaller and with a shorter tail, also 

 slightly duller in plumage. 



Young. Without coppery gloss on the under surface of body ; 

 the back greener and without violet reflections ; and generally 

 duller in plumage. 



Distribution. This beautiful long-tailed Glossy Starling was 

 discovered by Wahlberg in Damara Land in 1856, and obtained 

 by Andersson in the same country eleven years later. It ranges 

 northward into Mossamedes, and eastward along the valleys of 

 the Cunene and Zambesi Kivers. To the south of the latter river 

 it has been procured on the Mata Eiver by Frank Gates, and at 

 Sibanani by Dr. Holub. North of the Zambesi it occurs in Barotse- 

 land and Nyasaland. In the latter country it has been met with 

 both by Mr. Whyte and Mr. Alfred Sharpe. 



11. Lamprotornis purpureus. Purple Long -tailed Starling. 



Lamprotornis purpurea, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb., 1867, p. 334 (1867) ; id. 



Orn. Angola, p. 305, pi. 7. (1881) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 



423 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 158 (1890) ; Shelleij, B. Afr. i, 



p. 42 (1896). 

 " Melombeangansa," natives of Mossamedes. 



Description. Adult male. Above glossy golden-bronze with 

 violet reflections ; forehead and lores blackish ; crown like the 

 back ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts glossy purple with violet 

 reflections, the feathers tipped with golden- bronze ; secondaries 

 glossed with violet and purple and barred with dusky ; primaries 

 blackish ; tail-feathers glossed with violet and purple and cross- 

 barred with dusky ; throat and breast glossy purple with reflec- 

 tions of violet shading into golden-bronze on the abdomen. 



Iris brown ; bill and feet black. 



Length 14-00 ; wing 6-00 ; tail 8-40 ; tarsus 1-50 ; culmen 0-90. 



Adult female. Kesembles the male in plumage. 



Young. Much duller in colour ; generally of a dusky brown 

 with violet reflections. 



Distribution. Benguela and northern Ovampo Land. Anchieta 

 collected this beautiful Starling on the Eio Chimba, and at Quillen- 

 ques and Capangombe, in Benguela. I have seen several specimens 

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