556 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 



and extends the tnown range of P. verreavxi, which had not \ 

 previously been obtained so far north. 



C. verreauxi, which is distinguished by having the outer 

 web of the outer pair of tail-feathers partially white, ranges 

 from South Africa northwards to the Congo, and to East 

 and Central Africa (Fort Beni, Semliki Valley). 



C. levcogaster, which has the outer web of the outer pair 

 of tail-feathers uniform black, ranges from West Africa to 

 North-east Africa and southwards to Niam-Niam. 



3. CiNNYRICINCLUS SHARPEI. 



Pholidauges sharpii Jackson ; Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. xix. p. 263 (1910). 



An immature example of Sharpens Starling, which is a 

 rare species, was procured in KafE'a on the 10th of June. 



4. Lamprotobnis porphyropterus. 



Lamprotornis 2>orphyro2)terus Heugl,; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 

 1907, p. 580. 



Examples of this Purple-winged Glossy Starling were 

 obtained in the neighbourhood of Addis Abbaba, Lake 

 Heleue, Lake Zwai, Bulbula, Uba, the Sagan River, and 

 Baroda. 



5. Lamprocolius chalybeus. 



Lamprocolias chalybeus Ehrenb. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 611. 



Examples of this Common Glossy Starling were procured 

 at the Akaki River, Holata, and Mergeta, all in the r.ei^^- 

 bourhood of Addis Abbaba ; also at Baroda, Kullo, Gr'^^^y 

 Walamo, Kambata, and on an island in Lake Zwai, where 

 it was evidently breeding, as a quite young male exauipie 

 was obtained together with adult birds in December. 



6. Lamprocolius cyanogenys. 



Lamprocolius cyanogenys Sundev. Q^]fv. Vet.-Akad. Forli. 

 1850, p. 127. [N.E. Africa.] 



Lamprotornis cyanogenys Puch. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1858, 

 p. 254. 



As Pucheran pointed out in 1858, Abyssinian examples 



