SYSTEMATIC LIST (PART I^. 



Order PASSERES. '• 



Family EULABETIDAE. 



Lamprocolius splendidus splendidus. 



Turdus splendidus Vieiij.., Enc. Méth., II, 1822, p. 653. — 

 Type locality : Malinde, N. of mouth of Congo. 



A séries of the Splendid Glossy Starling was obtained at the Iju 

 water-vvorks near Lagos. Previously it had been collected at Niagi 

 and Oban in Southern Nigeria by P. A. Talhot. 



Range. — L. s. sploididiis bas an extensive range : in the 

 British Muséum it is represented from Southern Nigeria, North 

 Cameroon, and North Angola. It is found in Fernando Po, where 

 it bas been named Lamprocolius c/utbbi bv j^lexander, but I 

 consider it synonymous with the tvpical bird. It extends eastwards 

 through the North Belgian Congo to Uganda and Rhodesia, while 

 recently it has been recorded froni the Bahr-el-Ghazal (Ibis, 1918, 

 p. 431) and from Shoa bv Neumann. 



Its place is taken in vSenegal, Gambia and Portuguese Guinea 

 bv another race : 



Lamprocolius splendidus chrysonotis. 



Lamprotornis chrysonotis Swains., Bds of West Africa, VII, 1837, 

 p. 143 : West Africa, probably Senegambia. 



Range. — Cf. supra. 



(Thèse lovely birds, L. s. splendidus^ were chiefly in very tali 

 trees feeding on berries. Thev utter loud musical notes and wer^ 

 breeding on January loth. — W. P. L.) ('). 



C) Throughout this paper Mr Lowe's field-notes are quoted in brackels thiis, and his 

 enitials « W. P. L. » are ahvays appended. Thèse notes, though quoted at the end of the 

 species, refer to the Nigérian race which Mr LowE obtained. 



