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Matabele country. Frank Oates procured a specimen at Tati, 
and Serpo Pinto met with it in Central Africa at Luschuma, 
some fifty miles west of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. 
Ureginthus ianthinogaster. 
Ureginthus ianthinogaster, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 114; id. 
J. f. O. 1879, p. 326, pl. 2, figs. 1, 2 Massa; id. Vog. Afr. ili. p. 211 
(1904). 
Granatina ianthinogastra, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 404 (1890) ; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 396 (1896) ; Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 258 Oda, Mirti. 
Granatina hawkeri, Phillips, Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. 23 (1898) Somali. 
Adult male. Head and neck cinnamon, with the sides of the forehead 
and the cheeks ultramarine blue; mantle and wings brown, washed with 
cinnamon towards the edges of the feathers; rump and upper tail-coverts 
cobalt blue; tail brownish black; breast and under tail-coverts cobalt blue, 
mottled on the front and sides of the chest with cinnamon, and thus the 
blue of the lower throat is sometimes detached into a collar. ‘Iris and 
bill red; legs black.’ Total length 4:8 inches, culmen 0:4, wing 2:2, tail 
9:5, tarsus 06. g, 13.12.00. Moulou R. (Pease). 
Adult female. Differs in the sides of the head being cinnamon, with a 
narrow band of pale lilac blue feathers round the eye; entire throat like the 
neck uniform cinnamon, this colour, extending over the chest and flanks, 
which are spotted, with white tips to the feathers, fades into white on the 
abdomen and under tail-coverts; thighs dark brown. “Iris and bill red ; 
legs black.” Wing 2-2. ¢, 10. 3.01. Arbawun (Pease). 
Immature. Differs from the last in having the bill black; the feathers 
round the eye isabelline, and the under parts less spotted. ¢, 13. 12. 00. 
Moulou R. (Pease). 
The Ianthe Cordon-bleu ranges over Eastern Africa from 
Ugogo into Shoa and Abyssinia. 
It appears to be fairly abundant throughout this range 
eastward of 35° E. long. and to closely resemble U. granatina 
in its habits, and the eggs are probably alike. 
Fischer discovered the species at Massa on the Tana River 
and collected specimens at the Ronga and Pangani Rivers, at 
Loeru, Nguruka, in Arusha and Masailand, and at Barawa on 
