DESCRIPTION OF 
LAMPROTORNIS VIGORSII. 
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TueEreE are deposited in the Manchester Museum two 
specimens of a bird belonging to the genus Lampro- 
tornis. The following brief description will serve to 
convey some idea, though it must be admitted an 
inadequate one, of this highly interesting and beautiful 
bird. 
Order Insessores, Vigors. 
Tribe Conirostres, Cuvier. 
Family Sturnide, Vigors. 
Subfamily Lamprotornina, Stephens. 
Genus Lamprotornis, Temminck. 
Lamprotornis Vigorsii. 
The bill and legs are black. The plumage is soft, 
silky, and glossy. The upper part of the head, 
sides and back of the neck, anterior region of the 
back, and lesser wing-coverts are of a burnished 
golden-green colour ; a narrow border of fine purple 
separates the anterior from the posterior part of 
the back and from the scapulars, both of which 
are of a rich golden bronze; greater wing-coverts 
and feathers of the spurious wings deep purple, 
relieved with violet-blue and gold; the exterior 
webs of the quill-feathers of the wings are of a 
