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TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



54. Lamprotornis fulvipennis. 



Blacky glossed with purple : 

 greater quills externally ru- 

 fous, internally fulvous ; the 

 shafts half white, half black. 

 Tail moderate, rounded. Le 

 Nahoroup, Le Vaill. Ois. 

 d'Af. ii.pl. 91. (/^.4<9.a) 



Inhabits South Africa. 

 Le Vaillant, Burchell. 

 Total length 10 inches; bill, front -fg ; ditto, gape l^L; 

 wings 5\; tail, base 4i ; tarsus 1^. I suspect this species 

 has been overlooked by all our systematists, as a variety of 

 the L. rujipennis, or Roupenne of Le Vaill. ii. pi. 83. ; the 

 bill {a) is much smaller than in that (6j ; and the other di- 

 mensions proportionably less. 



5Q. QuiscALus versicolor. 

 Head glossed with steel blue ; neck and breast with 

 copper green. Bill \-(--- inch from the gape, (^fig- 50. a) 



Inhabits North America. 



Total length 121 inches ; wings 6 ; tarsus ■^^. 



56. QuiscALus purpuratus. 

 Head, neck, and breast, glossed with lilac purple, 

 without any green. Bill l-j^^ inch from the gape. 

 Inhabits North America, {fig. 50. h) 



Total length Hi inches; wings 5| ; tarsus 1^. Ornitho- 

 logists have considered the two last birds as only varieties ; 

 but, from inspecting a number of specimens, I am disposed, at 



