TSCHAGRA PERCIVALI 373 
Erlanger found this species very common, and breeding in 
the coffee plantations at Harrar. He took two nests on 
May 7 and 9, 1900. Hach nest contained three eggs, rather 
hard set. The nests were chiefly constructed of fine rootlets 
with some dry stalks of plants worked in on the outer side. 
Eggs of this species, also taken at Harrar by Zaphiro in June, 
are described and figured by Messrs. Oates and Reid. The 
ground colour is pure white, spotted, blotched and generally 
scrawled with purplish brown and lavender. They measure 
0°90 x 0°66. 
The following examples in the British Museum have been 
examined :— 
T. habessinica: Eritrea—Anseba Valley and Senafé (Blan- 
ford), Bejook (Jesse), Bogosland (Hsler). 
T. habessinia erlangeri : Abyssinia—Shoa (Antinori), Harrar, 
Hiiliil, Addis Ababa, Melkadegaga (Pease), Harramaier, Man- 
nibulla, Quala, Akaki, Hiressa (Degen), Laga Hardim, Gelongol 
(Lovat), Harrar (Zaphiro); Hgyptian Sudan — Baro River 
(Zaphiro), mouth of Zeraf River (Dunn). 
Tschagra percivali. 
Telephonus percivali, O-Grant, Bull. B.O.C. x. p. 50 (1900), and Noy. 
Zool. vil. p. 251 (1900) Lahey. 
Adult. Closely resembling 7. habessinica, but smaller in dimensions, and 
specially the bill. Under parts distinctly of a darker shade of slaty; wings 
with less rufous, especially along the inner edges of the quills, where it is 
almost entirely absent. Iris brown, bill black, legs grey, Length 7-5 inches, 
wing 3:0, tail 3:5, culmen 0°8, tarsus 1:0. Al Milah, type 9, 16.8.99 (Percival 
and Dodson). 
Percival’s Tschagra is only known from the type specimen 
obtained by Messrs. Percival and Dodson at Al Milah, north of 
Lahej, not very far from Aden in southern Arabia. In size it 
more nearly resembles the typical form of 7. habessinia, but in 
coloration the southern 7’. erlangeri. 
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