collected in East Africa. 241 



6. COSMOPSARUS REGIUS. >. V . i ' 



Cosmopsarus regius, Reiclien. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



xiii. p. 160 (1890) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. 336 (Pare) ; id. 



J. f. O. 1885, p. 132 (Massa). 



No. 89. ? ad. Wilderness Mts., Ndai, River Ts|:^o, Aug. 22, 

 1890. — Iris white; bill and legs black. Plentiful in 

 small flocks of from four to eight in the wilderness. 



Galeopsar, gen. n. 

 Affine generi Cinnamoptero , cauda longissima et valde gra- 

 duata ; sed rostro curvato, et plumis frontalibus et verti- 

 calibus densis, setosis, quasi galeam formantibus, distin- 

 guendum. 



7. Galeopsar salvadorii, sp. n. (Plate IV.) —L 



Adult female. General colour above glossy black, with a 

 steel-blue or steel-green gloss, the green shade being more 

 apparent on the secondaries and wing- coverts ; primaries 

 chestnut, with a band of glossy black at the ends, increasing 

 in extent towards the outermost, occupying the terminal 

 third of the second quill, the first short primary being entirely 

 blackish, chestnut only at the extreme base; tail-feathers 

 black, glossed externally with steel-green ; head, neck, and 

 entire underparts black glossed with steel-green ; the recurved 

 feathers on the forehead velvety black with a green gloss. 

 Total length 15 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 6*1, tail 9, tarsus 

 1-3. 



No. 161. Turquel, Suk, Jan. 15, 1890.— Legs and bill 

 black j irides crimson. The first and only one seen. 



The accompanying Plate (PI. IV.) will give ornithologists 

 a better idea of this extraordinary new genus of Starlings 

 than an elaborate description. The form is very like Cinna- 

 mopterus in general appearance, but the plumage is green 

 above and below instead of purple, and the dense patch of 

 bristly feathers on the forehead and fore part of crown dis- / 



tinguishes it from^his and all other allied genera. ^ j 



I have named this species after my old and valued friend 

 Count Salvadori, who has taken the greatest interest in Mr. 

 Jackson's collection, and whose assistance, it is needless to 



