CATALOGUE. 
547 
Lamprotornis nitens, apud Bilpp.y Syst. Uebers. p. 75. 
A. Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
"Differs from L. nitens, Linn., of S. Africa, in having a con- 
spicuously shorter bill, and in various details of colouring. Upper 
parts glossy steel-green, uniform on the crown, nape, and back, but 
passing to bluish on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and also on 
the ear-coverts ; throat and breast like the back ; but the belly and 
thighs are brilliant steel-blue mixed with amethyst, as likewise the 
axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are very brilliant, the 
amethystine hue prevailing; shoulder of wing (under the scapularies) 
steel-blue, with no terminal amethystine bar, as in L. ndtens, but a 
little of this colour showing at the bases of the feathers. In L. cy- 
aniventris the wings are more uniformly glossed than in L. nitens, 
extending quite over the tertiaries and primaries ; and the wing- 
coverts and tertiaries have their black terminal spots larger and 
rounder."— (Blyth.) 
820. LAMPBOGOLIUB SUPERBUS, Buppell Sp. 
Lamprotornis superba, Bilpp., Syst. Uehers. p. 65, t. 26. 
Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XXIY. p. 301. 
Juida superba, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 327. 
Lamprocolius superbus, Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 415. 
Lhimbee-load (i. e. Cow-bird), Somali, Lieut. Bpeke, 
A. Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
" This bird is found in large flocks in the Somali country, and is 
fond of cows ; whence its name. Irides white." — (Lieutenant Speke, 
46th Bengal N.I.) 
Pebnaary I2th, 1856. 
