CINNYRICINCLUS FEMORALIS 45 



drink, and as they were shy he could only obtain a single 

 female specimen. Ansorge has procured the species at Kinani 

 in Southern Ukamba, and Erlanger has met with it in South- 

 western Somaliland at Bardera on the Jub Eiver, and along 

 one of its tributaries, the Dau, he collected fourteen of their 

 eggs on April 30 and May 1. The nest he describes as 

 a large rounded structure, 10 inches in diameter, with an 

 entrance, facing east, 2 inches wide, composed of grass-stalks, 

 of finer texture towards the interior, which was lined with 

 feathers. The eggs, usually six in number, he likens to those 

 of our Song-Thrush, and the measurements he gives of them 

 varies from 1-2 X O'TS to O-.So X 0-G5. 



Cinnyriciaclus femoralis (Plate 44, fig. i). 



Pholidauges femoralis, Richmond, x\uk. 1897, p. 160 Kilimanjaro. 



Spreo femoralis, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. G78 (1903). 



Pholidauges fischeri (non Reichen.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 667 

 (1890) Kilimanjaro. 



Adult male. Plumage glossy black, with the breast and under tail- 

 coverts creamy white ; head, neck, back, scapular, lesser wingcoverts, 

 under wing-coverts, front of chest, flanks and thighs of a more purple 

 shade ; remainder of the wings and tail greener. Iris pale yellow ; bill and 

 feet black. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-9, tail 2 7, 

 tarsus 0-9. J , 8. 8. 88, Kilimanjaro (Hunter). 



Abbott's Starling inhabits Kilimanjaro. 



The type, an adult male, was discovered by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott, July 11, 1888, on Mount Kilimanjaro, at an elevation 

 of G,000 feet. Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, who was likewise on 

 Kilimanjaro, during his expedition into East Africa from June 

 to August, 1888, also obtained an adult male of this species in 

 the forest of the mountain at (],000 feet, which I referred to 

 in the following year as the male of C. fischeri (P. Z. S., 

 1889, p. 368). This is all that is yet known regarding this 

 Starling. 



