on Birds from East Africa, 127 



of Africa in which it occurs, the races found in Western, 

 Southern, and Eastern Africa not being absolutely identical, 

 though hardly differing sufficiently to be separated specifically. 

 Mr. Seebohm, who has been so kind as to compare the 

 present specimen with others in the possession of Captain 

 Shelley, informs me that it is of the usual East- African race, 

 and that " South- African skins are exactly intermediate be- 

 tween it and the yellow-breasted West-African form/' 



*23. Dryoscopus affinis (G. R. Gray) . Verreaux's Shrike. 

 The specimen sent agrees with the figure of this species in 

 Finsch and HartlauVs ' Vogel Ost-Afrikas,' pi. 5. fig. 2, ex- 

 cept that it has white edgings to the feathers of the greater 

 wing-coverts on the outer web, and that the similar white 

 edging to the tertials is more conspicuous than it is repre- 

 sented in the figure above referred to. It would seem, how- 

 ever, that these difierences are not constant, as they are pre- 

 sent in some and absent in others of the specimens of this 

 Shrike in Captain Shelley's collection. 



•^24. Lamprocolius melanogaster (Swains.). Black- 

 bellied Glossy Starling, 



■^25. Lamprocolius sycobius, Peters. Zambesi Glossy 

 Starling. 



26. Pholidauges verreauxi, Bocage. Verreaux's Glossy 

 Starling. 



" Iris yellow in both sexes. I have only seen this species 

 on the island of Mombasa, where it is found in flocks on the 

 baobab trees, which are there very numerous, whilst on the 

 coast of the mainland there are none of these trees." 



*%7. Hyphantornis rubiginosus, Riipp. Eust-coloured 

 Weaver-bird. 



28. Hyphantornis nigriceps, Layard. Black-headed 

 Weaver-bird. 



" Iris red.'' 



The above note was attached to a male in breeding-dress. 



29. Hyphantornis bojeri, Hartl. & Finsch. Bojer's 

 Weaver -bird. 



