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RED-BILLED PROMEROPS. 



Promerops erythroryncbos. P. niger purpureo viridique miens, 

 rostro pedibiisque rubris, cauda longa, rcctricibiis versus apices 

 albo maculatis. 



Black PromeiopSj with green and purple gloss, red bill and legs, 



and long tail with the feathers spotted with white near the tip, 

 Upupa erythrorynchos. U. viridi'atra, abdomine atro, cauda cu- 



neiformiy remigibus sex primoribus rectr'icibusque lateralibits albo 



maculatis. Lath. ind. orn, 

 Upupa erythrorynchos. U. mgro-violacea, viridi mtens, rectricibus 



versus apices macula utrinque alba, rostro rubro, Cimel. Fhys, 



t. 52. Nat, Misc. 13. pL 333. 

 Red-billed Promerops. Lath. si/n. suppL 

 Promerops a bee rouge. Viell. et Aud. Prom. pi. 6. 



This highly elegant species is an inhabitant of 

 Africa^, and seems to have been first described by 

 Dr. Latham from a specimen in the collection of 

 the Duchess of Portland. Its size is that of a 

 Hoopoe, and its length about fifteen inches : its 

 colour is black, with varying glosses of red, violet, 

 and golden green : the red cast predominates on 

 the head, the golden green on the viing-coverts, 

 and the violet on the back and tail : the latter is 

 very long, and of a strongly cuneated shape, the 

 shortest or outside feathers measuring about three 

 inches in length, and the rest gradually lengthen- 

 ing to the two middlemost, which measure about 

 eight inches : all the tail-feathers^ except the two 

 middle ones, are marked near the tip by an oval 

 white spot on each side the web : the six first quill- 

 feathers of the wings have also a white spot on 



