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227- Lamprotor^is phcenicopterus. 



Sea green^ glossed with blue on the head, rump, tail, 

 and thighs, and with violet on the ears : shoulder covers 

 greenish blue, margined by a flame- coloured and violet 

 band. Inner webs of the primaries with a central notch. 



Inhabits South Africa. Dr. Burchell's Collection, 

 No. 336. 



Totallength about 9^ inches; bill, gape l^^-; front fg ; wings 

 5-^^', tail, beyond, about li ; base 3^; tarsus 1-^^. This is un- 

 questionably the Nabirop of Le Vaillant, pi. 89., which Lin- 

 nsean authors have continued to place with their Turdus auratus, 

 PL Enl. 540., although Le Vaillant himself considered them 

 distinct. It is one of the most beavitiful of the whole genus, 

 distinguishable at first sight by the red or fiery coloured band 

 on the last range of the shoulder covers, which is deep copper, 

 glossed with lilac and flame-colour ; the upper range of feathers 

 being green blue : the ears and sides of the head are tinged 

 with violet blue; and the blue predominates over the green on 

 the rump, tail, thighs, vent, and under tail covers : the inner 

 wing covers are violet blue, and the inner webs of the quills 

 dull blackish green ; the greater and lesser covers are spotted 

 with black. 



228. Rhynchops alhicollis. 



Front lores, neck, throat, and under plumage, white : 

 crown, nape, body above, and wings, brown : tail white, 

 the two middle feathers with their inner web brown. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length about 18 inches; bill, the under mandible from 

 the gape S^g ; wings \2\, about 4\ longer than the tail; tail, 



tarsus fg. Bill orange yellow, 



dusky horn colour towards the end : feet yellow ; claws blackish 

 This species is at once distinguished by having the whole of 

 the neck, both above and below, pure white : the tail is the 

 same, but the two middle feathers have a stripe of brown : the 

 crown, nape, back, and scapulars are dark brown, passing into 

 blackish on the wings : all the quills are tipt more or less 

 with white, except the six first primaries : the brown on the 

 crown includes the eye and ears, but ends abruptly at the 

 nape ; and the white of the upper neck advances on the inter- 

 scapulars, but terminates abruptly there. There now appears 

 to be, at the least, five species of this singular genus ; namely, 

 1. the borealis of North America (the nigra of Wilson); 



