100 OyYCIlOONA'I'IIIIS \VAr,TJ':RT 



The Con^o bird is not admitted by eitlier Dr. Eeichenow 

 or Mr. Oscar Neninann to be separable from the typical O. 

 hartlauhi, Gray, and T inyself strongly object to recognising 

 as subspecies, forms which can only be said to be, on an 

 average, larger or smaller than the typical race. 



Onychognathus walleri. 



Amydrus wallori, Sliolloy, Ibis, 1880, p. 335, pi. 8 Usauibnra ; Sliarpo, 



Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 164 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. G15 (1896). 

 ryrrhochoiiii wallori, Roichoii. Viif,'. Afr. ii. p. 697 (1903). 

 Ainydrus olj,'i)iionsis, Sliarpo, Ibis, 1891, p. 242 Ml. EUjon ; Alexander, 



1903, p. 308 Fernando Po. 

 Amydrus walleri elj^'onensis, Neiiin. J. f. O. 1904, p. 569 Mau, NamU 



Ehjon. 

 Onycbof^natiius preussi, Reichcn. J. f. 0. 1893, p. 184 Buca ; Shelley, B, 



Afr. I. No. 621 (1896); Eoichcn. Vrtg. Afr. ii. p. 702 (1903); iii. p". 8.38 



(1905). 

 Amydrus walleri preussi, Nouin. .T. f. 0. 1901, p. 569 Camaroons, 



Fernando Po. 

 Amydrus nyasoB, Shelley, Ibis, 1898, pp. 551, 557 Nyasaland. 



Adult male. Head, neck and body l)lack with a stronr; violet blue ffloss 

 of a f^rocner shade on tiio sides of the lioad and neck and t!ic throat ; tail 

 dull black witii a slight steel green gloss on the edges of the feathers; wing 

 black with a largo cinnamon patch over the basal two thirds of the primaries, 

 l)ut leaving tiie upper siilo of the shafts black; the coverts and secondaries 

 with glossy violet blue edges ; under wing-coverta, like the dark portion of 

 the quill, dusk black, but slightly glossed with violet at the edges of the 

 feathers. "Iris dark crimson; bill and feet black" (.lackson). Total 

 length 9 inches, cuhfion 0-8, wing 50, tail 3'8, tarsus 10, Usambara (Kirk). 



Adult female. Uillers only in being slightly paler anil iliiUer, with the 

 head and neck grey mottled on the hinder half of the head and on the throat 

 with glossy violet shaft-stripes to the feathers. Total length 92 inches, 

 culmcH 75, wing 49, tail 3-('), tarsus TO. 



In the female typo of A. nya.i(c the wing measures 5'2 and in the type of 

 A. elgoneniis, 4-6. 



Waller's Chestnut-winged Starling ranges from Lake 

 Nyasa to INlount Elgon and westward on to Fci-iiando Po. 

 Ill its most southern range Mr. Alfred Sliarpe obtained the 



