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Spreo superhus (Rupp.). — Rchw. II. p. 674. 

 3 (5(5 ad. 20. and 22. 4. Lake Naiwasha. 



In the acacia-couutry round about the shores of Lake 

 Naiwasha this magnificent Glossy Starling was rather common. 

 I always saw them in pairs and usually they ran along the ground 

 executing some amusing movements and jumps with drooping 

 wings and outstretched head. The whole thing put one in mind 

 of some sort of nuptial display. 



Wing, tarsus, 



114—120 ram. 33 mm. 

 Irides yellowish white; bill and legs klack. 



Cinnyricinclus leucogaster verreauxi (Finsch & Hartl.). — 

 Rchw. II. p. 680. 



1 (5 ad. 8. 7. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. — 1 (5 ad. (transitional dress) 3. 6.; 

 2 (5(5 juv. 21. 5. and 7. 6. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



This race was found on the eastern slopes of Elgon very 

 sparingly. It frequented the tops of the Fodocorpus tree, where 

 it fed on the fruits. 



One of the males ad. is in full nuptial dress, the other is 

 changing into the full dress, a number of the feathers of the 

 back having a beautiful blue and lilac gloss, the majority, however, 

 being brownish black with yellowish brown edges, as in younger 

 specimens. Some of the secondaries and wing-coverts, the upper 

 tail-coverts and central tail-feathers beautifully glossy. The throat 

 white with dark longitudinal streaks. The fore- neck also furnished 

 with dark-brown streaks and here and there blue-glossy feathers. 

 The uuderparts, for the rest, white. 



The two juvenile birds have a dress that agrees with the 

 description given by Reichenow (op. cit). The smaller of 

 them has only a narrow white edge to the outer-web of the 

 outer tail-feathers. The larger has the outer web like the adult. 



Irides citron-yellow in the adults, dark-brown in the young; 

 bill dark-grey (blackish); legs dark-grey (in the young lead-grey), 



Fholia sharpei (Jacks.). — Rchw. II. p. 682. 

 7 (5(5 ad. 20.-26.5. Mount Elgon, 7.000-7.500 ft.| 



Fairly common in the depths of the dense forests 

 on the eastern slopes of Elgon and, like the preceding, 

 it was an inhabitant of the high tree-tops. v. Someren 



