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Show 1873.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 589 Vieill. et Oud. Gal. Ois. i. p. 33, pl. 42 (1825); Less. Traite, p. 154 (1831) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 42 (1858). Chalcites cupreus, Riipp. Neue Wirt). Vog. p. 62 (1835). Chalcites smaragdineus, Sw. B. W . Afr. ii. p. 191 (1837) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246. Chrysococcyx cupreus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 96 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 105 (1850); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 48 (1856); Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 8 (1862). Cuculus smaragdinensis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 463 (1847). Cuculus splendidus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 464 (1847, ex Mus. Lever.). Chrysococcyx smaragdineus, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 135; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 705 (1854); Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 361 ; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 191 (1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 246 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv, p. 10 (1862); Dohrn, P.Z. S. 1866, p. 329; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 58; Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 774 (1870). Chalcites intermedius,~S err. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 259. Chrysococcyx intermedius, Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 191 (1857); Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 8(1862) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. i. p. 143 (1867). Adult male.-Above brilliant metallic emerald-green, the plumage having somewhat of a scaly and velvety appearance; wings and tail of the same metallic green as the head, this colour likewise extending over the sides of the face and throat as far as the fore neck; rest of under surface bright golden yellow, the under tail-coverts broadly barred with metallic green; the quills and tail glossed underneath with metallic green, the bases of the primaries whitish, the outer tail-feather also spotted on the outer web and tipped with white; under wing-coverts golden yellow, the outer ones green ; bill greenish grey, blackish along the line of gape and at tip, malachite-green at angle of mouth; feet and bare orbits lead-colour; iris sometimes brown, sometimes greyish (Heuglin). Female.-Different from the male. Above metallic green, thickly barred with rufous, the quills similarly marked, excepting on the primaries, where the bars are more or less obsolete, leaving the groundcolour brown, the quills brown underneath, very distinctly notched with rufous or rufous white; under surface of body metallic green barred with white, a little more narrowly on the under wing-coverts ; tail brown, the middle feathers glossed with metallic green, and washed with rufous, the outer feathers white internally washed with rufous, and spotted near the tips and on the inner web with metallic coppery green. Hab. N. E. A F R I C A : Migratory with the rain ; mountains of Abyssinia, Fazogl, and Galla countries, northwards to 16° or 17° N.lat. In Mareb Valley to 4000 feet, and on plateau of Central Abyssinia to 8000 or 9000 feet (Von Heuglin). W . A F R I C A : river Gambia (Mus. R. B.S.); Casamanze (Verreaux) ; Fantee (Ussher) ; Elmina, April 1872 (Blissett); Princes' Island (Dohrn); St. Thomas (Weiss); Cameroons (Mus. R. B. S.); Gaboon (Walker) ; Angola |