LAMPBOCOLIUS 35 



a. 3 Size larger ; wing 5*80 L.phcenicopterus,p.38. 



b. 3 Size smaller ; wing 5*00 L. phoenicopterus 



bispecularis, p. 39. 

 b. 2 Breast steel-green glossed with purple ; 



abdomen and flanks bluish-purple. 

 c. 3 Wing-spot bluish-purple ; crown steel- 

 blue L. chloropterus, p. 40. 



d? Wing-spot violet; crown glossy oil-green L. sycobius, p. 41. 

 d. 1 Tail black, slightly glossed with purple on the 



outer webs ; abdomen dull black L. melanogaster, p. 42. 



Lamprocolius phoenicopterus. 



(S^^e^^=^^ 



12. Lamprocolius australis. BurchelVs Glossy Starling. 



Megalopterus australis, Smith, Report Exp. Cent. Afr. App. p. 52 



(1836). 

 Lamprotornis Burchellii, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 47 (1840) ; Holub 



and Pelzeln, Orn. Siidafr. p. 110 (1882). 

 Juida australis, Strickland and Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 149 ; 



Layard B. S. Afr. p. 170 (1867) ; Gurney in Andersson's B. Damara 



Land, p. 158 (1872). 

 Lamprotornis australis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 424, 846 



(1884). 

 Chalcopsar australis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 158 (1890) ; Shelley 



B. Afr. i, p. 43 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Crown, back, wing-coverts, throat 

 and breast glossy oil-green, the inner lesser coverts copper-colour ; 

 nape, lower back and rump glossed with purple and violet ; upper 

 tail-coverts glossy green tipped with purple ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown bronzed with purple, violet, blue and green, and crossed by 

 numerous dark bars ; lores and feathers round eyes black ; ear- 

 coverts blackish glossed with purple and violet ; secondaries brown 



