384 TSCHAGRA JAMESTI 
with broad white tips, and white external margins to the outermost pair ; 
under parts ashy grey becoming white on the throat and abdomen, and pale 
buffy on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and lining of the quills 
ashy brown, edge of the wing white. Iris brown with five or six white spots 
round the pupil; bill black, feet grey. Length 7-25 inches, wing 2:7, tail 
3-1, culmen 0°60, tarsus 0°85. Somaliland, type (L. Phillips). 
T. 3. mandanus. Differing from the typical form in the sandy not ashy 
brown shade of its upper parts, while the sides of the crown are much paler. 
Tris with 10 white spots. Wing 2-7. Manda Island, type ?, 13. 11. 85 
(Jackson). 
T. j. kismayensis. ‘tMuch paler above, especially on the head, but ashy 
not sandy ; below pure grey without any olive tone” (Neumann). 
James’s T'schagra was discovered by Mr. EK. Lort Phillips 
during his first journey to Somaliland along with Messrs. 
James, Aylmer, and Thrupp in 1884-5. No exact locality is 
given, but the bird is stated to have been observed on two 
occasions on the high plateau of the interior to the south 
of Berbera, and one of these examples is now in the British 
Museum. 
Neumann has divided this species into three races, as 
follows :— 
T. jamest jamest. Central and western Somaliland to 
Turquel, near Mount Elgon, in eastern Uganda, and ious 
to Teita on the borders of German Kast Africa. 
T’. jamest kismayensis. From the lower valley of the Juba 
river and Kismayu. 
T. jamest mandanus. From Manda Island, Witu, and the 
neighbourhood on the coast of British East Africa. 
An examination of the series of this species in the British 
Museum, and in Mr. Jackson’s collection, enables me to 
confirm Neumann’s conclusions. 
The typical form of the species has also been met with 
by Elliot at Hullier, and by D. Smith at Bussarler in 
western Somaliland, and by Bury at Waghar on the northern 
plateau. 
