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On the eastern side of the contment, the most southern 

 range known for the species is Nandi ; here Mr. Jackson met 

 witli a liock of five or six, " attracted by the small fruit of a 

 large tree in the garden." Mr. Harrison obtained the species 

 at Lake Margarita and at Bunge, Mr. Pease shot the only one 

 he saw in Somaliland, at Somadu, and Lord Lovat writes : 

 " Met with only in the valley of the Blue Nile and its tribu- 

 taries. I once observed this Starling hawking for flies like 

 a Bee-eater." The species has not been recorded from Shoa, 

 but is apparently as plentiful in Central and Northern Abys- 

 sinia as on the Gold Coast, and being strong on the wing 

 they change their quarters according to their requirements, 

 for Heuglin found them in the lowlands of Semien, along the 

 Mareb and Takase Kivers, and in Bergemeder up to 9,000 feet. 

 In May and June they were abundant on the low ground of 

 the Samhar coast, at the Anseba and in Bogoslaud in families 

 of young and old birds. Early in summer he found them 

 assembled in largo flocks, consisting of both young and old 

 birds in the thick forests between the Gazelle and Kosanga 

 Rivers. 



Cianyricinclus verreauxi. 



Pholidauges verreauxi, Bocage in Finsch and Hartl. Orn. 0. Afr. p. 867 

 (1870) Caconda; id. Orn. Angola, p. 314, pi. o (1881) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. M. xiii. p. 1^3 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 581 (1896) ; Grant, 

 Ibis, 1905, p. 201 Uganda. 



Cinuyriciuclus verreauxi, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 680 (1903). 



Adult male. Similar to that of C. leucogaster, from vyhich it differs only 

 in having some vrhite on the outermost pair of tail-feathers ; these are 

 blackish brown, with the basal two-thirds of the outer web white and the 

 remaining third with a very narrow white edge. Iris yellow ; bill and feet 

 black. Total length 7'2 inches, culmen 055, wing 4-25, tail 2-6, tarsus 0'8. 

 g , 20. 11. 96, Eavine (Jackson). 



Adult females and immature birds. Like those of C. leucogaster. 



