120 SENEGAL BED- FOOTED PROMEROPS. 
extends also to tlie outer webs, while the three first 
secondaries have merely a small white spot on then- 
inner webs : the tail is long and cuneated ; the 
three outermost feathers have a double white spot 
near their tips (closer to each other than in ery- 
throrynckos), and a single white spot on the outer 
web of the fourth pair of feathers, but there is 
none upon the middle pair : these latter, in some 
lights, have very little green, hut are rich lilac, 
mixed with the blue. 
The immature bird has the throat rufous brown, 
while, in what we consider as the female, the bill 
is half an inch shorter ; that is, measuring only one 
inch and a half from the fi-ont. 
Total length, with the tail, about 16J inches; 
bill, from the front, 2 T ] y ; from the rictus or gape, 
2 t % ; wings, 5J; tail beyond, 7; ditto, from the 
base, 9§. 
LITTLE PALE-WINGED PROMEROPS. 
Promerops pusillus , Swains. 
Black, glossed with purple ; spurious wings and quills spotted 
with white *, tail slightly rounded, immaculate ; ends of 
the primary quills greyish white. 
We can find no description in any modem author 
applicable to this singularly small species, which is 
not bigger than a lark, although its tail renders it 
much larger. Of those enumerated in Audubert 
