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are still to be found inhabiting the Peepul trees {Ficus 

 terehrata) in Jamestown." 



I am not aware of any other mention of the species from 

 the Ethiopian Kegion. 



Genus XIV. FREGILUPUS. 



Bill yellow, long, culmen 1-6 inches, slender and much curved ; nasal 

 aperture rounded and situated in the front of the nasal-groove. Head with 

 a crest of narrow long feathers of loose structure ; a patch of bare skin 

 behind the eyes. Wing with the fourth and fifth primaries the longest. 

 Tail square and shorter than the wing. Tarsi, feet and claws yellow. 



Txjpe. 



Fregilupus, Less. Trait6, p. 323 (1831) F. varius. 



Lophopsaru'!, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 40 (1872) . . . F. varius. 



The genus is represented by one species, now extinct, which inhabited 

 the Island of Edunion. 



Fregilupus varius. 



Upupa varia, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Eul. p. 43 (1783) Bhmion. 



Fregilupus varius, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 194 (1890) ; Shelley, B. 



Afr. I. No. 631 (1896). 

 Upupa capensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 466 (1788). 



Upupa madagascariensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. (1) p. 140 (1812). 

 Coraeias cristata, Vieill. N. D. viii. p. 3 (1817). 

 Pastor upupa, Wagler, Syst. Av. Pastor, sp. 13 (1827). 

 Fregilupus borbonicus, Vinson, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1868, p. 627. 



Adult. Head and neck white, with the elongated crest of disentegrated 

 feathers, and the back of neck of a pale ashy shade ; back brown ; wing and 

 tail slightly darker brown and more glossy ; end half of primary-coverts white, 

 like the under wing-coverts, and edge of bend of wing ; under surface of 

 quills and tail uniform brown, with whitish shafts to the feathers ; breast 

 white, with the thighs and under tail-coverts brown. Bill, tarsi, feet and 

 claws yellow ; a dark bare patch behind the eye. Total length 12-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-6, wing 6 5, tail 50, tarsus 17, crest 1-3, Pieunion (Eiocour). 



The Crested Yellow-billed Starling inhabited the Island of 

 Eeunion. 



The species is no doubt now extinct, no specimen having 



