obtained in British East Africa. 593 



and other birds, were either so intent on the fruit or so 

 unaccustomed to the report of a gun (certainly not a loud 

 one, as I was using E. C. powder) that, until I had fired 

 several shots, they took no notice, but went on feeding. 

 Even when eventually they took alarm, they only flew a 

 short distance to the nearest tree, and came back again 

 almost immediately. The females are easily distinguished 

 from the males, when on the wing, by their conspicuous 

 reddish-brown primaries. 



[P. greyi, named by Mr. Jackson in honour of Sir Edward 

 Grey, Bart., M.P., the late Under-Secretary of the Foreign 

 Office, is a larger bird than P. luyubris, has a much broader 

 and less pointed tail, and has dark wings, not showing the 

 light brown patch on the greater wing-coverts and secon- 

 daries, which is a very strong feature in P. lugubris. 



The types of P. kenricki Shelley differ entirely from the 

 four specimens of P. greyi collected by Mr. Jackson in 

 being glossy bronzy-black, without any blue or purple lustre. 

 The wings are blackish, without any paler brown wing- 

 patch. The P. lugubris from Kilimanjaro, mentioned by 

 Dr. Reichenow (Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afrikas, p. 173), is pro- 

 bably the same as P. greyi. — 11. B, S.] 



13. Lamprocolius glaucovirens. 



Lamp7'ocoIiifs glaucovirens Elliot; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xiii. p. 173, pi. vii. fig. 2 (1890) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, 

 p. 42 (Bukoba, Sesse Isl.) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 43 (ISUG). 



a-d. S- Ntebi, Dec. 19-20, 1894. Bill and feet black; 

 iris yellowish white. 



No. 942. S • Kakamega, Kavirondo, 5600 feet, April 7, 

 1898. Plentiful in the patch of open forest near darkens 

 bridge over the Icliaka river. 



Nos. 1168-1169, S; 1170, ?. Nandi, Aug. 29, 1898. 

 Iris straw-colour. Now in pairs and breeding. Makes a 

 nest of dry grass in holes in trees from 20 to 30 feet above 

 the ground. The cock birds are very noisy, but many of 

 their notes are pleasant. When flying they make a loud 

 swishing noise with their wings. They would make splendid 

 cage-birds. 



