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SENEGAL RED-FOOTED PROMEROPS. 
Promerops Senegalensis, Swains. 
Mack, glossed with greenish-blue ; purple upon the nock and 
chin ; spurious wings, quills, and four lateral tail-feathers, 
with white spots ; bill black, red at the base, and almost 
straight. 
Falcinellus Senegalensis, Vieill. Ency. Meth. 580. — Epimaelius 
melanorhynclios, Systema Avium, i. No. 1. 
We have received from Senegal two or three speci- 
mens of a Promerops, which very well agrees with 
the description of that called by Vieillot Senegalen- 
sis, excepting, that instead of the bill and feet 
being black, the bill is black and red and the feet 
entirely red. M. Yieillot indeed mentions, that 
another specimen of his Senegalensis which he ex- 
amined was four inches shorter, and the feet were 
red. On comparing our Senegal specimens with 
one of the P. erythrorynchos of authors, we find 
they are almost precisely of the same size ; that 
the white spots on the wings and tail are the same ; 
and that the feet of all three are red. The Senegal 
* “ Rostra pedibusque nigris Vieill. Ency. Meth. 580. 
