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obtained two specimens on tlie Hand, and remarks : " Only 

 seen on the high plateau, and apparently nowhere very 

 abundant. I do not remember ever seeing it loitering in 

 and about the camp, as is the habit of S. siiperhus, and, 

 so far as I have observed, it goes only in small flocks." 

 There is, in the British Museum, an immature bird shot by 

 Mr. F. Gillett in W. Shebeli. Dr. Donaldson Smith has met 

 wdth the species at Hargeisa and l^arar, and in the Arussi 

 and Ennia Gallaland, to the south and east of Shoa, Erlanger 

 found it to be very abundant and tame, following his caravan 

 during the march. 



Spreo pulcher. 



Tardus pulcher, P. L. S. Miill. S. N. Siippl. p. 139 (1776) Senegal. 

 Spreo pulcher, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 191 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 



No. 613 (1S96) ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 675 (1903) ; A. L. Butler, 



Ibis, 1905, p. 325 Soudan. 

 Turdus erythrogaster, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 22 (1783). 

 ? Turdus chrysogaster, Gm. S. N. ii. p. 835 (1788) Senegal. 

 Lamprotornis rutiventris, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. pp. 24, 27, pi. 11 (1835) 



Abyssinia. 

 Lamprotornis chrysogaster var. ahyssinica, Eiipp. t. c. pi. 11, fig. 1 



Abyssinia. 

 " Lamprotornis cinereiceps, Wiirt." Heugl. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 294 



Abyssinia. 



Adult. Head In-onzy brown, black in front of eyes ; remainder of the 

 upper parts, neck and crop glossy green of a bluer shade on the tail ; inner 

 webs of tlie primaries mostly rufous shaded white ; outer half of the under 

 ■wing-coverts glossed with green, the remainder cinnamon like the breast, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts. Iris pale yellow ; bill and feet blackish. 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-7 and 4-6, tail 28, tarsus 1-35. J , 

 10. 61, below Khartoum (Petherick), and 2 , Abyssinia (Riippell). 



Immature. Differs in haviug the head, neck and back brown ; back with 

 a very slight green gloss ; throat pale brown, with no gloss, and shading 

 gradually into cinnamon on the lower half of the breast. Bill yellow, with 

 the tip dusky ; wing 4'4. <? , 24. 7. 68, Waliko (Jesse). 



