PQ^OPTERA STUHLMANNI 119 



Pceoptera stuhlmanni (Plate 49, fig. i). 



Stilbopsar stuhlmanni, Eeichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1893, p. 31 Albert 

 Nyanza; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 628 (1896); Eeichen. Yog. Afr. ii. 

 p. 706 (1903) ; Neum. J. f. 0. 1901, p. 569; 1905, p. 212. 



Pceoptera greyi, Jackson, Bull. B. 0. C. viii. p. 50 (1899) Nandi. 



Adult male. Brownish black, with a deep violet blue gloss on the head, 

 neck, entire body, and upper tail-coverts, and a slight wash of that gloss on 

 the edges of the lesser wing-coverts and under wing-coverts, the remainder 

 of the wings and tail being dull black. Iris brown, with an outer ring of 

 yellow; bill and feet black. Total length 7-7 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 115, 

 tail 3-5, tarsus 0-85. S , 19- 5. 98, Nandi (Jackson). 



Adult female. Differs in being paler, with the gloss of a greenish grey 

 shade, and in having a large patch of cinnamon on the wing, almost entirely 

 confined to the basal two-thirds of the inner webs and the shafts of the 

 primaries. Total length 7'7 inches, culmen 055, wing 3'95, tail 33, tarsus 

 0-8. 2 , 19. 5. 98, Nandi (.Jackson). 



Stulilinann's Narrow-tailed Starling ranges from the 

 northern portion of the Victoria Nyanza district to 7° 

 N. lat. 



The type, which is in the Berlin Museum, formed part 

 of Emin and Btuhlmann's collection and was procured by 

 them at Badsua on the Albert Nyanza. The species has 

 been obtained by Sir Harry Johnston on Mount Elgon at 

 7,000 feet, and a little further east, in the Nandi forest at 

 G,000 feet, by Mr. Jackson, who writes : " When first seen 

 I mistook a flock of these birds for small Bee-eaters, which 

 they resembled in a remarkable degree, both in flight and in 

 their short, loud, thrilling note. To-day (May 19) I procured 

 four specimens, and, unfortunately, lost two others in dense 

 green undergrowth. Several small flocks were attracted by 

 a little yellow fruit of a tall forest tree in a small clearing. 

 These birds, together with Zosterops, Bulbuls, Barbets, and 

 other birds, were either so intent on the fruit or so unaccus- 

 tomed to the report of a gun (certainlv not a loud one, as I 



