TAB. XXXIV. 
LAMPROTORNIS SPILOPTERUS. 
Mas. Lamp. supra plumbeo-canus, plumis ad apicem fusco marginatis ; subtus albus, rufo tinctus ; 
uropygio rufescents ; remigtbus atris viridi splendentibus, macula alba ; cauda brunnea ; gula 
° N ay 
entense rufa. 
Foem. supra pallide brunnea, subtus albescens, brunneo tincta. 
Statura Lamp. cantoris. 
Tue general form of this bird allies it at first sight to the genus Lamprotornis ; but its want of the brilliantly 
coloured and glossy plumage which distinguish that group appears in some measure to evince a deviation 
from that genus: form, however, and other more stable characteristics than the tints of plumage, claim 
undoubtedly a precedence ; and it is consequently figured and named as Lamprotornis spilopterus, an entirely 
new species of that group. 
The specimen represented was from the mountains, to which in all probability it is strictly confined. 
In the male, the upper parts are of a grey tinge obscurely mottled with blueish brown; the rump is brown; 
the quills glossy black with greenish reflections, and barred across the base with white; the tail is dark 
brown ; the throat bright rufous ; the under parts are whitish with a wash of the same, becoming deeper 
about the flanks ; the beak and tarsi are deep brown. 
The female is of a uniform greyish brown above, fading into a paler hue over the whole of the under parts. 
The male and female are figured of their natural size. 
