44 STUENID^E PHOLIDAUGES 



Four species and sub-species of this genus are known, their 

 range being confined to Ethiopia and South Arabia. One sub- 

 species occurs in South Africa. 



19. Pholidauges leucogaster verreauxi. 



Verreaux's Glossy Starling. 



Pholidauges leucogaster, Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 29 ; Bocage, Jorn. 



Lisb. 1868, p. 4. 



Juida leucogaster, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 174 (1867). 

 Lamprotornis leucogaster, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii, App. p. 404 (1868). 

 Pholidauges verreauxi, Bocage in Finsch and Hartl. Vb'g. Os t.- Afr. 



p. 867 (1870) ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 314, pi. 5 (1881) ; Sharpe, ed. 



Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 428, 846 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 123 



(1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 42 (1896). 

 Cinnyricinclus leucogaster, Gurney in Andersson's B. Damara Land, 



p. 156 (1872). 



Pholidauges verreauxi. Pholidauges verreauxi (tail). 



Description. Adult male. Above, crown and entire upper 

 surface, including the wing-coverts and secondaries, as well as the 

 sides of face and neck, below, the throat and upper chest, brilliant 

 metallic copper colour with violet and purple reflections ; rest of 

 under surface pure white tinged with grey on the sides and flanks ; 

 lores, feathers below and behind eye and chin black ; bastard wing 

 and primaries, as well as the bases of some of the secondaries, 

 black ; under surface of quills black ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts blackish, with light edges and coppery reflections ; edge of 

 wing barred with white ; tail, two centre feathers like the back, the 



