ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 11. N.o 5. 



Notes on some interestiiig East-African Birds, 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



Read October 25 1916. 



A collection of birds which had been made at Elgon and 

 Londiani, B. E. A., in the year 1914 by Dr. Leo Bayer has 

 been sent to the Zoological Museum of Christiania, where 

 Professor Dr. Th. Odhner has named the greatest number. 

 Some of them, however, he kindly remitted to me for in- 

 spection, and among them were a few which may deserve 

 to be specially mentioned or even described. 



Turturoeua sharpei Salvadori. — A specimen from 

 »Junction Camp., B. E. A., ^s 1914». »Iris orange, legs pink» 

 according to notes on the label from the hand of Mr. H. J. 

 Allén Turner. This beautiful specimen agrees with Sal- 

 VADORi's and Rothschild's descriptions and plates and is 

 undoubtedly a male, although by a lapsus calami signed »5». 

 Length of wing 176 mm. 



Another specimen from »Z'wani Svvamp, Elgon, B. E. A., 

 273 1914» is also labeled ^ and this is I think the hitherto 

 undescribed female of this species. Head and neck »mineral 

 brown» (Dauthenay: Rép. d. Coul. 339, 2), in some shades 

 of light a hardly perceptible golden bronzy gloss may be 

 discerned on the nape. The forehead is duller, somewhat 

 more greyish, but without any line of demarcation, ear coverts 

 darker brown. Lower part of hind-neck and sides of neck 

 black with strong metallic gloss which in some lights is ame- 



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