46 CINNYRICINCLUS SHAUPEI 



Cinnyricinclus sharpei. 



Pholidauges sharpei, Jackson, Bull. B. 0. C. viii. p. 22 (1898); id. 

 Ibis, 1899, p. 590, pi. 12 Nandl, Eldoma. 

 Pholia shai-pei, Reiclien. Yog. Afr. ii. p. G82 (1903) ; Neuni. J. f. O. 1905, 



p. 238 ; Erlanger, t. c. p. 708 N. E. Afr. 

 Pliolia hirundinea, Reichen. O. M. 1900, p. 99 Buiigwe. 



Adult male. Ui^per parts lilack witli a steel blue gloss of a more bronze 

 shade on the top and sides of the head and greener on the quills and tail ; 

 under parts butf changing gradually into pale rufous on the lo\Yer breast, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts ; sides of body mottled with glossy bluish 

 black feathers ; under surface of tail and wings dull brownish black, waslied 

 on the under wing-coverts with steel blue. " Iris bright yellow ; bill and 

 legs black." Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 4-1, tail 2-7o, 

 tarsus 085. J , 7. 3. 97. Eavine (.Jackson). 



Adult female. Differs in the dark parts being browner and less glossy ; 

 chin, upper throat and chest with blackish angular shaft spots. Wing 3'8. 

 9 , 27. 3. 97. Eavine (.Jackson). 



Immnturc male. Like the female. 



Sharpe's Starling inhabits East Africa from 10" S. lat. 

 to nearly 10° N. lat. and 40" E. long. 



In German East Africa, towards the northern end of Lake 

 Nyasa, Mr. Fiilleborn procured the species in October at 

 Ngasi in the Eungwe highlands, where, he states, it was 

 nesting in company with Swallows in holes along a cliff side. 

 The accuracy of this statement is doubted by Mr. Oscar 

 Neumann, who remarks that he found the species frequenting 

 only the thick forests, and that its habits closely resemble 

 those of the other members of this genus. He collected 

 specimens between Lake Rudolf and the Blue Nile in the 

 Malo, Kaffra, and Gimirra countries. As the late Baron 

 Erlanger procured a single specimen in the east of this 

 district at Mara, the range of the species probably extends 

 nearly to 10° N. lat. and 40° E. long. Mr. Jackson has 

 collected specimens at the Mau Eavine in JMarch and August 

 and in the Nandi forest in Ma}'. In the former locality 



