44 CINNYRICINCLUS FISCHERI 



Kiver it is apparently to be met with everywhere, including 

 the islands of Zanzibar, Mombasa and INIanda ; and accord- 

 ing to Hildebrandt is known to the natives of Duruma as 

 the "Kwele." In Central Africa it has been procured at 

 Kimoani on the south western shore of Victoria Nyanza, 

 by Stuhlmann, and on the neighbouring island of Sirwa 

 by Emin. In Uganda Ur. Ansorge obtained an adult male 

 at Msarosaro, and Mr. Jackson saw it " plentiful in twos 

 and threes " at Save on Mount Elgon ; he also obtained 

 specimens at Njemps and the Man Eavine, where he found 

 them fairly abundant, but only singly or in pairs and were 

 breeding on March 4. " Nest found in liole of hollow stump, 

 5 feet from the ground, composed of tine green leaves, small, 

 like those of privet. Two eggs, pale greenish blue, with 

 reddish brown speckles, much incubated." He has also pro- 

 cured a specimen on Manda Island : " Shot out of a large 

 flock" ("Ibis," 1888, p. 303). 



Cinnyricinclus flscheri. 



Notauges fischeri, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 54 Pare Mts. ; Fischer, 



Zeitschr. ges Orn. i. p. 335, pi. 20, fig. 1 (1884). 

 Spreo tisclieri, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 189 (1890) ; Eeichen. Vog. 

 Afr. ii. p. 677 (1903) ; iii. p. 887 (1905) ; Erlanger, J. f. 0. 1905, 

 p. 705. 

 Pholidauges fischeri, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 583 (189G). 

 Type. " Head, throat and crop silver grey, the latter darker ; lores 

 black, under parts white ; back, wing and tail earth brown with a silky 

 gloss, the tail-feathers and inner quills glossed with steel green. Iris pale 

 yellow; bill and feet black; cere yellowish. Total length 68 inches, 

 culmen 068, wing 4-0, tail 26, tarsus 1-16 (Eeichen.). 



Fischer's Starling ranges from the Pare Mountains through 

 Masailand to the Jub River in Somaliland. 



The species was discovered by Fischer on the Pare plains, 

 ^\•lu) only saw these birds on one occasion, on August 5, 

 when a flock of about six individuals approached the river to 



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