70 LAMPROTORNIS PHCENICOPTERUS 



This Starling is apparently plentiful throughout its some- 

 what limited range, which extends southward into Ovam- 

 poland, and eastward to the Okavango Eivcr, where we are 

 informed that Mr. Erickson met with it (Stark, Faun. S. Afr. 

 B., i., p. 38). 



Lamprotornis phcenicopterus. 



Lampi'otornis phcenicopterus, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 360 (1838) 

 S. Africa. 



Laniprocolius phasnicopterus, Shavpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 180 (1890) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 598 (189G) ; Reichen. Yog. Afr. ii. p. 685 

 (1903) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 223 Orange R. ; Shortridge, Ibis, 

 1904, p. 175 Pondoland ; Clarke, t. c. p. 525 Blocmfontein. 



Spreo bispecularis, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 149 Daviara. 



Lamprocolius bispecularis, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 181 (1890). 



Lamprocolius phcenicopterus bispecularis, Eeichen. Vtig. Afr. ii. p. 686 

 (1903) ; Sparrow, S. Afr. O. U. i. p. 9 (1905) S. Africa. 



Achilt vialc. General plumage glossy green, more shaded with steel blue 

 on the head, neck, body and tail than on the wings, the blue shade strongest 

 on the sides and back of head and neck, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail and 

 thighs ; wings, with the inner two-thirds of the lesser coverts copper shaded 

 with lilac and blue ; ends of median and greater coverts with black spots ; 

 inner webs of the primaries and under surface of quills and tail dull 

 brownish black ; under wing-coverts glossed with violet, shading into green 

 at the bend of the wing. Iris pale yellow; bill and feet black. Total length 

 9-5 inches, culmeu 095, wing 5-3, tail 38, tarsus 095. 3 , 22. 5. 73, Natal 

 (T. E. Buckley). 



Female. Differs only in being smaller; wing 4-95. $, 23. 7. 76, 

 Swaziland (T. E. Buckley). 



Immature. Differs in having the sides of the head and the under parts 

 dusky blackish brown, with more or less distinct glossy green edges to 

 many of the feathers, and no black spots on the wing-coverts. 



Large race. Diflers only in size ; male, wing 5'8 ; female, wing 5.2, 

 Eland Post (Atmore). 



The Eed-shouldered Glossy Starling ranges over Africa 

 southward from Gaboon and Matabeleland. 



The species, on an average, increases in size as it 



