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and legs black. Total length 8"3 inches, culmen O'Q, wing 

 4i'Q, tail 3'6_, tarsus 1'15. 



Hab. E. Africa, from Somali-land to Massa and Kikamba. 



" Very rare, only seen on two or three occasions on the 

 plateau. They were remarkably shy, went in small flocks, 

 and much resembled N. superbus in their habits.^' 



50. NOTAUGES ALBICAPILLUS. 



Spree albicapillus , Blyth, J. A. S. Bengal, 1856, p. 301 

 (Somali-land). 



Notauges albicapillus, Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 246, pi. vii. ; 

 Heugl. Oru. N.O.-Afr. p. 520; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 

 p. 379. 



Hab. E. Africa, confined to Somali-land. 



Forehead and entire crown huffish white ; loral band in 

 front of the eye black ; cheeks and ear-coverts dusky olive- 

 brown ; back of the neck, back, tail, inner secondaries, and the 

 primaries glossy olive shaded with green; wing-coverts buffiish 

 white, with a large portion, especially the median and inner 

 greater coverts, greenish bronze ; spurious wing- and primary- 

 coverts glossy green, like the back ; outer secondaries huffish 

 white for the greater portion of their outer webs, with the 

 remainder of these feathers dusky black glossed with green ; 

 the feathers of the lower back and upper tail-coverts are 

 mostly tipped with buff, and some of the outer tail- coverts 

 have shaft-stripes of that colour ; the tail-feathers are obso- 

 letely barred; chin, throat, and chest dusky olive, with a 

 slight greenish gloss, each feather with a broad buffish-white 

 shaft-stripe ; abdomen, thighs, under tail-coverts, and under 

 wing-coverts huffish white ; under surface of the quills dusky 

 black, with buif outer margins to some of the secondaries ; 

 bill and legs black. Total length 10*8 and 10*6 inches, cul- 

 men 095, wing 6, tail 4-9, tarsus r55 and 1*6. The sexes 

 are similar in plumage. 



'^Fairly plentiful towards the southern portion of the 

 plateau. They breed in colonies in March, and are very 

 noisy. Tlieir nests are very similar to those of A^^. superbus J' 



