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lie found the species " fairly plentiful in small Hocks of 

 from three to eight," and had been feeding on berries and 

 insects. 



Genus IV. SPECULIPASTOR. 



This genus differs from all the others found iu the Ethiopian Region in 

 having the entire basal portion of the quills white, forming a strongly 

 marked speculum on the wing, from whence its Latin name is derived. 



Bill black, rather wide at the gape and the culmen curved. Wiug 

 pointed; third primary longest or equal ia length to the second and fourth. 

 Tail I'ounded ; tarsi, feet and claws black. 



Type. 

 Speculipastor, Eeichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 108 . . . S. bicolor. 

 The genus is confined to Tropical Africa, where it is represented by 

 a single species. 



Speculipastor bicolor. 



Speculipastor bicolor, Eeichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 108 Kipini ; 



Fischer and Eeichen, .1. f. O. 1879, p. .3-19, pi. 1, figs. 2, 3 ; Eeichen. 



Viig. Afr. ii. p. 682 (1903) ; Erlanger, .J. f. O. 1905, p. 707 Juh River. 



Pholidauges bicolor, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 125 (1890); Shelley, 



B. Afr I. No. 582 (189G); Witherby, Ibis, 1905, p. 518 Somali. 

 Adult male. Head, neck, upper parts, and a broad under margin to the 

 bend of the wing, including the small first primary, black ; basal third ot 

 the other primaries creamy white like the remainder of the under wing- 

 coverts, breast, thighs and under tail-coverts ; the feathers of the head, 

 neck, and back with glossy blue black edges ; dark portion of wings and 

 the tail shgbtly browner and much less glossy. "Iris orange yellow; bill 

 and feet black." Total length 8-2 inches, culmen 0-65, veing 4-5, tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 1-05. Hand Plateau (L. Phillips). 



The Black-and-White Starling ranges eastward from the 

 Tana River through Sonialiland. 



The species was discovered at Kipini, close to the mouth 

 of the Tana River, by Fischer, who collected two males and 

 a female on July 11, probabl}' out of one flock. These 

 Starlings were next observed in Sonialiland by Mr. Lort 



