120 PCEOPTERA KEKRICKI 



was using E. C. powder) that, until I had fired several shots, 

 they took no notice, hut went on feeding. Even when 

 eventually they took alarm, they only tiew a short distance 

 to the nearest tree, and came back again almost immediately. 

 The females are easily distinguished from the males when on 

 the wing, by their conspicuous reddish-brown primaries " 

 (P. fii-eiji, " Ibis," 1800, p. 50-2). Further north, in the Malo 

 and Kaffa countries, Mr. Oscar Neumann met with these birds 

 at an elevation of 8,000 to 0,000 feet, frequenting, in company 

 with Cinnyricinclus sliarpei, the thick virgin forest and the 

 tops of the high trees surrounding Anteratsha, the capital of 

 Kaffa. In March and April they were accompanied by their 

 young. 



Pceoptera kenricki (Plate i9, tig. 2). 



PcEoptera keniicki, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. III. p. 42 (189i) Usambara; 



id. B. Afr. i. No. 627 (1896). 

 Stilbopsai- kenricki, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 707 (1903), iii. p. 838 (1905) ; 



Neum. J. f. 0. 1904, p. 569. 

 .\mydi'us ? dubius, Riclnuond, Auk, 1897, p. 158 Taveta. 



Adult male. Plumage sooty biowii, with a faint purple shade on the 

 wings and a slight bronze gloss, strongest on the bead, neck, body, scapulars 

 and lesser wing coverts. Bill and feet black. Total length 7-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 4-0, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-8, Ngiri R. (Kenriek). Ti/2)C. 



Female or youmj. Differs in being paler and less glossy ; bead, neck and 

 under parts greyish ; the nine long primaries with a large portion of their 

 inner webs cinnamon. Total length 70 inches, wing 39, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-7. 

 Usambara Mountains (Kirk, 1879). 



Kenrick's Narrow-tailed Starling ranges in Eastern 

 Africa from the Usambara country to the Kilimanjaro 

 district. 



The type was discovered in the mountains of Usambara 

 before 1881, when I referred it to P. hir/i/hris, under the 

 impression that it would prove to be an immature specimen 



