ONYCHOGNATHUS FRATER 101 



type of AmijdruH niasc?, probably near Zomba. Dr. Marwitz 

 found the species at Mahanga in Ungoni, and Dr. Fiilleborn 

 at Bulongwa, at the northern end of the Livingstone Range. 



The species was discovered by Sir John Kirk, in the 

 highlands of the Usainbara country. To the south of KiH- 

 manjaro, at Kibosho, Mr. Neumann found the species, and 

 Mr. Jackson has collected a fine series from the Ravine at 

 Mau, on the highlands near Nandi, and on Mount Elgon, 

 where he procured the type of Amijdrus elgonensis, and wrote, 

 June 4, 1898 : " Not seen in Nandi before to-day, when I 

 found a pair breeding in a hollow tree some 30 feet from the 

 ground." 



Mr. Boyd Alexander obtained five males and two females 

 on Fernando Po, where he considered it to be confined to the 

 southern portion of that island, and remarks that tlicse 

 specimens agree better with A. elgonensis, Sharpc, than witli 

 A. ivaUeri, Shelley, which he suggests should be kept distinct. 

 His specimens really belong to 0. preiissi, Reichen., if we wish 

 to break the species up into subspecies. In following the range, 

 as I have above given it, the species gradually diminishes in 

 size, the extremes being represented by the type of Amijdrus 

 nyasce, ? , wing 5'2 inches, and 0. preussi, ? , wing 4"5, while 

 the wings in the females measure in A. waller i, 4"9, and in 

 A. elgonensis, 4"65. 



Onychognathus frater. 



Amydrus frater, Sclat. & Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 171 Sokotra ; Sharpe, 

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

 Grant & Forbes, N. Hist. Sokotra, p. '24 (1903) ; Neum. J. f. 0. 1904, 

 p. 569 Sokotra. 



Pyrrhocheira frater, Eeiciieu. VOg. Afr. ii. p. 698 (190.3). 



Adult. General plumage glossy violet black, with a tinge of green 

 generally more evident on the sides of the head and the under parts ; 

 primaries deep cinnamon, with the blackish ends broadest on the outer long 



