CHESTNUT-BODIED GRAKIJg. 
Lamprotomis rufiventris , Ruppell. 
Head, neck, breast, and plumage (above), metallic-green ; 
body (beneath), thighs, and under tail-covers, rufous ; 
greater quills, fulvous-white on their inner web. 
A specimen of this Grakle has long been in our 
museum, but we were not aware of its being a 
native of Western Africa, no less than of Abyssinia, 
until assured that such was the fact by Dr. Ruppell. 
On this authority we shall insert it in our present 
Work, particularly since it seems to have been 
hitherto overlooked by systematic writers. Upon 
its natural habits we can say nothing. 
In its general size, the Chestnut-bodied Grakle is 
rather smaller than L. cycinotis, hut the wings are 
very much shorter in proportion. The upper plu- 
mage, although glossed with- coppery-green, is yet so 
destitute of richness that it seems, in some lights, to 
be more brown than otherwise, particularly on the 
head and ears, where there is only a slight purplish 
gloss ; there are no black spots on the wing-covers, 
but upon these, the tertials and the tail, are dark 
transverse reflections resembling stripes. The wings 
are short, and do not reach further than the upper 
tail-covers. The under parts, from the chin to the 
