890 PROCKEDiyaS of the XATTONAL museum. vol. XXVIII. 



tail, stouter bill, and less purplish sheen of the metallic portions of the 

 phuuao-e. So far as our niaterial indicates, the birds from British and 

 German. East Africa are not diflVrent enough from rupjhlln to warrant 

 the recognition of another and intermediate subspecies shcJIiiji." 



PYRRHOCHEIRA WALLERI WALLERI (Shelley). 



Ami/drns iixillrrl Shklley, I))is, 18S0, p. 335, pi. viu (Usaiubara Mts., (ierinan 



East, Africa). 



A single adult female, from Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet, Sep- 



temlier, 18S9. It has broad terminal shaft streaks of metallic greenish 



black on the dark gra}^ feathers of the hind neck; otherwise it does 



notdifl'er from descriptions. 



This species is out of place in the genus .l//A//c/yv/.v, and belongs with- 

 out doubt in Piji'i'liochrira^ where it has ])een placed by Doctor 

 Heichenow.'' 



STILBOPSAR STUHLMANNI Reichenow. 



,Sti[ho/)s((r KtHhImunnI Reichenow, Ornith. Moiiafeber., 1893, p. 31 (Badjua, Albert 



Nyanza, I^ritish East Africa). 

 Amydrmf dubiiii^ Richmond, Auk, 1897, \k 158 (Tavcta, British East Africa). 

 Pa:optera greyl Jackson, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, VIII, 1899, No. LXIII, p. 1 



(Nandi, British East Africa). 



One adult female, from Taveta, August IT, 1888. ''Iris light yel- 

 low." Doctor Richmond's Amydnin dvhiw^^'h^^^A on this specimen, is 

 apparently the same as Stllho/mir .sfvJiJi)i(inni Reichenow,'' as is also 

 I^iopfem f/rei/U'dckson; and Sf/fhopst//' I'r/t /■/cli/' (i^heWey)' is dubiously 

 distinct. 



COSMOPSARUS REGIUS Reichenow. 



Cosmo]>S(irus regtKS Reichenow, Ornith. (.^entralblatt, 1879, p. 108 (Massa, British 

 East Africa) . 

 Three specimens of this beautifid starling were obtained by Doctor 

 Abbott on the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, October 5, 1888. 

 One of these has just molted into the adult plumage, and has still 

 some brown feathers among the metallic ones of the under wing- 

 coverts. There are also tine black spots on the tips of some of the 

 greater and median wing-coverts, though whether or not this is an 

 evidence of immaturity there is nothing to determine; but these 

 spots are not present in the two other specimens. "Iris white." The 

 female apparently does not dift'er in color fi-om the male, but is 

 evidently smaller, as our birds, which are all females, measure, respect- 

 ivelv, 117, 111), and 126 millimeters in length of wing. 



('Ami/drus iiioria xlw/lc)/! Hartert, Cat. Vojielsaminl. Mus. Senckenl)., 1891, p. 75. 

 '' Vogel Africas, II, 1903, p. 097. 

 '•Auk, XTV, 1897, i>. 158. 

 '/Ornitli. Monatsber., 1893, p. 31. 



''Pmyptmi h'ii.rirl<i Shelley, Bull. Brit. Oru. Club, III, 1894, No. XVIII, p. xlii 

 (Usainbara Mts., German East Africa). 



