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Besides, the external rectrices, which in immature examples are always either short or only extend 
but little beyond the other tail-feathers, are in the specimen in question very fully developed, and even 
longer than in the most adult C. s^atulatus I have examined. The striping also extends, not, as in 
the young of C. spatulatus, on the sides of the neck only and on the breast, but over the entire throat, 
sides of the head, and breast, and is diiferent in character from that in young C. simtulatus, and 
none of these feathers show any sign of change, the bird being very clean-moulted in plumage. These 
differences can be seen in the Plate of the present species and that of the type of G. s'po.tuldtus^ which 
retains the immature plumage on the neck and breast, I should not have described this bird as 
specifically distinct from C. s;patulatus were I not fully convinced that when more specimens arrive 
from that part of East Africa my views will be confirmed. 
Compared with the adult male of Coracias spatulatus from the Umvuli river, above described, the 
type of C. weigalU has the wings rather brighter in colour, the upper parts somewhat darker in tinge, 
the white over the eye rather more extended, and the elongated tail-feathers are longer. 
I forwarded copies of my three Plates of the Pacquet-tailed Pollers to Dr. Peichenow at Berlin, 
asking him to compare them with the specimens in the Berlin Museum. It appears that they have 
no example of C. weigalli, but have, he writes, “ adult specimens of C. s^atulatiis from Uniamuesi, 
Usegua, and Kakoma (East Africa), which agree with the plate, but the upper edge of the wing is 
not violet as there shown, all the smaller coverts and those on the upper edge of the wing being 
ultramarine-blue; the central and larger coverts are, however, reddish brown with a violet tinge, the 
foremost larger coverts having a blue tinge there as shown in the plate of G. sjgatulatus, type; the 
central tail-feathers are not bluish black, but dull black with a greenish tinge. We have also a 
specimen from Angola which agrees with the plate of G. spatulatus, type, but the external rectrices 
are not elongated; and a second specimen from Angola, which has the external rectrices elongated and 
has still a few feathers on the sides of the breast buff (‘ pallide cervinis et dilute caeruleo striatis ’). 
This latter bird must therefore be the older of the two.” 
The specimen of Goracias weigalU figured and described is the type, for the loan of which I am 
indebted to my friend the Pev. Canon Tristram. 
