APPENDIX IV. 
upon all the intermediate feathers ; a black bar crosses the ends of all, but 
their extreme tips are green, which colour however lessens upon each as 
it approaches nearer to the two middle feathers; these latter are green, 
deeply tipped for about half an inch with black ; legs and claws rather 
dusky. As this bird is probably a new species, the only one that was seen 
in Abyssinia, and most numerous about the Pass of Taranta, I have ven- 
tured to attach to it the above names. Its place in the system would 
probably be near to the black-winged. 
No. 6. Cor acias Bengalensis f junior 1 
Length about 11^ inches. Bill 1^ inch long from the gape to the tip, and 
blackish : crown of the head and back of the neck, brownish sea-green ; 
front and chin dirty rufous white, extending as an eyebrow over the eyes, 
where the white becomes purer. At the gape of the bill are a few strong 
but rather short black bristles. Immediately from the under-eyelid springs 
a tuft of long rufous feathers which cover the ears : the cheeks, through 
some part of the neck and breast are violet, with a narrow dash of white 
down the shafts, except on the breast, which has no w'hite : the upper part 
of the back and scapulars are sometimes of a greyish chestnut, sometimes of 
a greenish olive, according to the light in which they are viewed : the lower 
part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, blue with a mixture of green, 
principally inclining to the latter : the lesser wing coverts are of a fine deep 
rich blue, the greater greenish blue, varying in the light from one colour to 
the other; the exterior edges of the first primary quill are deep blue, but 
become greenish towards the tip, the rest are similar except that their hues 
are of a light changeable blue on the outer edges, which fades almost into 
white on the inner edges ; below the blue the inner and tips are of a dusky 
greenish brown with a dull tinge of coppery gloss : the belly, sides, thighs, 
under tail, and wing coverts are blue green, as are also the bases of the quills : 
but fur the rest of their length they are dusky black, down the shafts on both 
sides, as well as the tips, while their inner webs for a considerable space 
below^ the light spot are of a fine rich blue, thus reversing the order of the 
colours above : the tail, legs, and claws ansvi^er exactly to that described by 
Dr Latham, in his Gon. Syn. p. 410, Vol. I. except that the tail of his bird 
^ppeairs to have been slightly forked, instead of being equal. This is probably 
