on the Parrots. 147 
AGAPORNIS ROSEICOLLIS (Vieill.) ; Fleck, Journ. f. Orn. 
1894, pp. 372, 395 (S.W. Africa); Kush. op. cit. 1895, 
p- 98 (egg) ; Shell. B. Afr. i. p. 141 (1896) ; Rehnw. Vog. 
Afr, 11. p. 19 (1902): 
AGAPORNIS LILIAN Shelley. 
Agapornis roseicollis Kirk (nee Vieill.), Ibis, 1864, p. 329 
(Shiré, between Nyassa and the rapids). 
Agapornis liane Shell. Ibis, 1894, p. 466, pl. xii. (Upper 
Shiré) ; id. B. Afr. 1. p. 141, no. 1980 (1896); Sharpe, 
Hand-list, 1. p. 35, no. 5 (1900) ; Alex. Ibis, 1900, pp. 431, 
432; Shell. Ibis, 1901, p. 176; Rehnw. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 22 
(1802). 
Head and threat brick-red, inclining to vermilion towards 
the forehead, with the back of the head and hinder neck 
greenish yellow; remainder of the plumage bright grass- 
green, slightly paler and yellower on the under parts ; imner 
webs of the quills dark brown ; tail with a blackish sub- 
terminal band and a scarlet basal patch on all but the central 
feathers. Bill rosy red, fading into white at the base of the 
upper mandible. Total length 5:3 inches, culmen 0°75, 
wing 2°7, tail 1°8, tarsus 0°55. 
Female. Similar. 
Hab. Upper Shire, Nyasaland (White). 
Easily distinguished from A. roseicollis by having no blue 
whatever on the rump and upper tail-coverts, which are 
green, like the back. 
AGAPORNIS SWINDERENIANA (Kuhl). 
Psittacula swinderniana Bittik. Reisebild. Liberia, App. 
. 475 (1890). 
Agapornis swinderenianus Rehuw.Vog. Afr. 11. p. 19 (1902). 
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AGAPORNIS ZENKER? Rehnw. 
Agapornis, 8, Emin, P.Z.S. 1894, p. 599. 
? Agapornis swinderniana Emin, |. c. 
Ayapornis zenkeri Rehnw. Orn. Monatsb. ii. p. 112 
(Cameroon) (1895); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1896, p. 8, Taf. ii. 
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