240 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on Birds 



1887, p. 66 (Usegua, Usandawi, Ussure, Usukuma, Victoria 



Nyanza) . 



No. 119. Victoria Nyanza, Oct. 29, 1889. 



Fam. Sturnid^. 



4. Pholidauges verreauxi. 



Pliolidauges verreaiui, Bocage ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit, Mus. 

 xiii. p. 123 (1890); Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. 335 (Maurui, 

 Pangani, Pare) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 132 (Zanzibar, Lindi, 

 Bagamoyo, Wapokomoland) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 66 

 (Msingissua, Scliasclie). 

 Nos. 221, 222. ^ ad. Save, Mount Elgon, Feb. 4, 1890 ; 



6000 feet. — Irides bright .yellow, pupil very largej legs 



dull olive-black ; bill black. Plentiful in twos and threes 



in the shambas. First seen in Kitosh. 

 Nos. 235, 239. ? ad. Save, Feb. 8, 1890.~Legs dusky 



olive ; irides yellow, duller than in the male. 



5. Lamprotornis porphyropterus. 



Lamprotornis purpuroptera, Riipp. Syst. Nat. pp. 64, 75, 

 taf. 25 (1845) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. 336 (Nguruman) ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1885, p. 132 (Pangani, Witu, Wapokomoland, Lamu); 

 Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 66 (Simiu River, Kagehi, Nassaon 

 Speke Gulf). 



Urauges porphyropterus {noWi. emend.) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 200 (1850) . 



Lamprotornis porjjhyropterus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 



p. 511 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 156 (1890); 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 199 (1884 ; Shoa). 



Nos. 211, 212. c? ? ad. Turquel, Suk, Jan. 28, 1890.— Irides 



pale yellow ; legs and feet black : small ants, &c., in 



stomach. Plentiful in small flocks ; song very sweet. 



The male has the wing 6' 2 inches, the female 5*6 inches. 

 The female has also a shorter tail than the male, and there- 

 fore the diflFerences alluded to by me in the ' Catalogue ' 

 may be partly sexual, though Mr. Jackson^s birds have not 

 such long tails as the Abyssinian examples. The tail in the 

 male bird from Suk measures 71 inches, and in the female 

 6 inches. 



