294 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on a 



Iris orange (male) ; pale yellowish -green (female). Bill, 

 legs, and feet black. 



The British Museum contains two examples of this rare 

 Starling, — the type-specimen, an adult from Somaliland 

 collected by Mr. Lort Phillips, and an immature male from 

 Webbi Shebeyli procured by Mr. F. Gillett. Mr. Bury 

 obtained a small series of examples including three adults 

 and a number of immature specimens, which shew all the 

 changes in plumage from the very young bird, with the 

 breast-feathers brownish-buff streaked with dark brown, to 

 the adult. 



Cosmopsarus regius Reichenow. 

 Cosmopsarus regius Reich, ii. p. 713 (1903). 

 a-q. $ ? . Burao, 5th Jan. -20th Mar., 1906. 

 A fine series of this splendid Starling, all in fully adult 

 plumage. 



Amydrus blythi Hartl. 



Amydrus blythi Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 395; Grant, 

 Nat. Hist. Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, p. 23 (1903). 



a-f. S ? et <J ? imm. Dubar, 1st May-lst June, 1905. 



g-n. (J ? et ? imm. Waghar, 10th July-28th Oct., 1905. 



The immature female does not possess the grey head and 

 hind-neck of the adult, but resembles the adult male, lacking, 

 however, the marked purplish gloss on the feathers of the 

 head and back, while the breast is of a dull brown colour. 



[Always seen in flocks feeding on wild figs ; the birds had 

 not paired on the 12th of May.— G. W. B.] 



Buphaga erythrorhyncha (Stanl.). 



Buphagus erythrorhynchus Reich, ii. p. 667 (1903). 



a. $. Waghar, 15th July, 1905. 



Family Dicrurid^e. 



BUCHANGA ASSIMILIS (Bechst.) . 



Buchanga assimilis Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 396. 

 Dicrurus afer Reich, ii. p. 646 (1903). 

 a-b. <3 ? . Geloko, 20th June, 1905. 



