84 LAMPROTORNIS IllIS 



I am inclined to think that the eggs above described by 

 Stark really belong to L. plimnicnpterns. 



I found the present species to be the most abundant of 

 the Glossy Starling on the Berea hill about Durban, being a 

 more woodland bird than L. phosnicopterus, and in March 

 always met with it in flocks. It is remarkable how persis- 

 tently the species keeps near the coast line as the following 

 localities where it has been procured will show : Eschowe 

 (Woodward), Mosambique (Fornasi), Quilimane, Tnnungua 

 (Stuhlman), Nguru (Emin), Lindi, Pangani, Kipini, Bugamoj-o, 

 Witu (Fischer), Mojoni (Neumann), ]\Ialinda and Lamu (Kirk). 

 At Quilimane, Dr. Stuhlmann found it known to the natives 

 as the " Mbrue.'" 



Lamprotornis iris. 



Lampi'ocolius (Coccycolius) iris, Oust. Bull, .\ssoc. Sc. France, 1878, 



No. 580 Los Island. 

 Coccycolius, iris, Oust. N. Arcii. Mus. (2) ii. p. 155, pi. 7 (1^79); Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 185 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. G07 (1896); 



Eeichen. Vo^'. Afr. ii. p. 095 (1903). 



Adult. General plumage uniform metallic golden green, witii the ear- 

 coverts, sides of the upper neck and the breast glossy reddish violet ; under 

 surface of wings and tail dusky brown glossed on tiie under wing-coverts 

 with steel blue passing into metallic green along the bend of tiie wing. Iris 

 pale yellow ; bill and feet black. Total lengtli 7H inches, culmen 075, 

 wing 4-2, tail 30, tarsus 0-95. Los Island. 



The Los Island (llossy Starling is confined to the Islands 

 of that name. 



^I. Oustalet, who received this species from the Los 

 Islands off the West Coast near Sierra Leone, gives fairly 

 good figures of this lx>autiful and remarkably local Starling, 

 but does not do justice to tlie extremely In'illiant metallic 

 colouring of tlie upper parts, which resembles that of the 

 genus Chrysococcy.f or Golden Cuckoos, which is implied in 

 its generic name Cnccijcoliiis. 



