TAB. XXXIV.
LAMPROTORNIS SPILOPTERUS.

Mas. Lamp. supra plumbeo-canus, plumis ad apicem fusco marginatis ; subtus albus, rufo tenctus ;
uropygio rufescenti ; remigibus atris viridi splendentibus, macula alba ; caudd brunnea; gula
intense rufa.

Foem. supra pallidée brunnea, subtus albescens, brunneo tincta.

Statura Lamp. cantoris.

Tue general form of this bird allies it at first sight to the genus Lamprotornis ; but its want of the brilliantly
coloured and glossy plumage which distinguish that group appears in some measure to evince a deviation
from that genus: form, however, and other more stable characteristics than the tints of plumage, claim
undoubtedly a precedence ; and it is consequently figured and named as Lamprotornis spilopterus, an entirely
new species of that group.

The specimen represented was from the mountains, to which in all probability it is strictly confined.

In the male, the upper parts are of a grey tinge obscurely mottled with blueish brown; the rump is brown ;
the quills glossy black with greenish reflections, and barred across the base with white; the tail is dark
brown ; the throat bright rufous ; the under parts are whitish with a wash of the same, becoming deeper
about the flanks ; the beak and tarsi are deep brown.

The female is of a uniform greyish brown above, fading into a paler hue over the whole of the under parts.

The male and female are figured of their natural size.