Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 727. 
Family QBACULIDM. 
JHETALLOPSAR iCETALLICUS. 
SHINING STARLING. 
(Plate 580.) 
[Lamprotornis METALUCtrs Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., livr. 45« (Vol 
III., pi 266), May 1st, 1824: Celebes. Extra-limital.] 
Calomis 'purjmrascens Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. n., p. 26 (before Nov. 
23rd), 1870 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Aplonis metallica Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 33 (pt. 1), March 15th, 1851. 
Calomis metallica Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 327, 1846 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 477, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soo. (Lond.) 1875, p. 593, 1876; id., 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 
1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 138, 1890; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 48, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 475, 1901; 
Cochrane, Emu, Vol. III., p. 48, 1903 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
p. 105, 1908 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 256-263, 1909 (N.Q.); Macgillivray, 
ib., Vol. X., p. 230, 1910 (N.Q.); Broadbent, ih., p. 238; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., 
p. 29, 1911 (N.Q.); Le Souef, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 164, 1915 (N.Q.); Campbell and 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 36, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Aplonis metallica MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 183, 1914 (N.Q.); id., ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 209, 1918 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XX., p. 65, 1920 (N.Q.). 
Lamprocorax metallicus purpurascens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 437, Jan. Slat, 
1912. 
Lamprocorax metallicus sapphire Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 437, Jan. Slst, 
1912 ; Mount Sapphire, Queensland; id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 64,1912 (Eggs). 
MetaUopsar metallicus purpurascens Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 308, 1913; id., South 
Austr. Om., Vol. II., p. 61, 1915. 
Distribution. North Queensland (New Guinea, Papuan and Aru Islands). 
Adult male. Lores, top of the head and ear-coverts shining purple; lengthened feathers 
of the back of the neck glossy bottle-green ; mantle lining purple, bordered above 
by a patch of bluish-green feathers; wing-coverts, lower back, rump and upper 
tail-coverts sliining bottle-green; imiermost secondaries dull purplisli-blue; 
primaries and outermost secondaries black, glossed on the outer webs with steel- 
blue ; tail-feathers black, glossed with steel-blue, the middle pair long and narrow; 
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