CORACIAS SPATULATUS. 
EACQTJET-TAILED EOLLEE. 
Coracias spatulatus, Trimeiij P. Z. S. 1880, p. 31; Peidienow & Sclialow, J. f. O. 1880, p. 316; Bocage, Orn. 
Angola, p. 536 (1881); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 243; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 22 (1892). 
Coracias dispar, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. xxviii. pp. 227, 232 (1880); Reichenow & Schalow, J. f. O. 1880, p. 316. 
Coracias caudata (nee Linn.), Sharpe in Oates^ Matabele-Land, App. Birds, p. 302 (1881). 
Coracias sp., Boehm, J. f. O. 1883, p. 170. 
Coracias spatulata. Trimen, Schalow, J. f. O. 1883, p. 348; Sharpe in Layard^s B. of S. Afr., App. p. 805 (1884); 
Beichenow, J. f. O. 1889, p. 276; Emin, J. f. O. 1891, p. 59; Beichenow, tom. cit. pp. 151, 209. 
Hobia, Benguelan {fide Anchieta). 
Figura adhuc nulla. 
Hab. Central Africa from Kakoma and Lake Taganyika down to Matabeleland on the east side, and 
Benguela and Angola on the west side of the Continent. 
ad. fronte et linea superciliari albidis : pileo, nucha et dorso anteriore sordide viridibus, pileo cseruleo lavato; 
dorso reliquo, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum centralibus rufescenti-cervinis : alis sicut in C. caudato 
coloratis : rectricibus duabus centralibus nigro-cseruleis, duabus sequentibus utrinque saturate ultramarinis, 
reliquis conspicue nigro-cseruleo terminatis; rectricibus lateralibus valde elongatis et conspicue spatulatis: 
corpore subtus pallide turcino-caeruleo : rostro nigro : pedibus viridi-fuscis : iride fusca. 
$ mari similis. 
Juv. coloribus sordidioribus : gula et gutture pallide fusco-cervino lavatis : rectricibus lateralibus non elongatis sed 
indistincte spatulatis. 
Adult male (Umvuli river, 2nd August).—Forehead and a line extending over the eye dull 
white; crown, nape, and upper parts of the back dull light greenish, on the crown tinged with blue ; 
rest of the back, scapulars, innermost secondaries, and central wing-coverts warm pale cinnamon- 
buff; primaries and secondaries black on the inner webs and ultramarine-blue on the outer webs, 
the basal portion of the primaries and secondaries pale bright turquoise-blue; the two central 
rectrices blackish blue, the next two on each side deep blue, the rest broadly and diagonally tipped 
with blackish blue, the outermost rectrix on each side much elongated and conspicuously spatulated; 
entire underparts pale turquoise-blue as in Coracias ahyssinicus, but rather paler: bill black; iris 
brown; legs pale greenish brown. Total length about 15 inches, culmen 1‘2, wing 6*5, tail 8.3, 
tarsus 0’95, lateral rectrices extending 3’4 beyond the central ones. 
Adult female .—Resembles the male. 
