AVES. 317 



In the Upper Lebka and Anseba valleys this Chizcierhis 

 abounds, and its excessively loud harsh call is constantly 

 heard. Like other Plantain-eaters, it appears to live 

 solely on fruit. It keeps mostly to high trees. 



Tamilt COLIIDiE. 

 49. Colius leucotis, Eiipp. 



Mus. Senckenberg. vol. iii. t. 2, fig. 1; Syst. Uebera. No. 319. — Ferr. 



et Gal. No, 48. 

 C. striatus, Salt, No. 44, App. p. xlyiii. 

 G. lewonotus, Brehm, Habesch, p. 219, No. 103. 



Iris greyish blue (pale cobalt), legs dull carmine, re- 

 sembling those of a pigeon in colour, greater portion of 

 upper mandibl^ and ba,se of lower dusky, centre of 

 upper and greater portion of lower flesh-.coloured. 



Inhabits the teipaperate region of Abyssiniaj occasion- 

 ally descending to abput 4,000 or 5,000 feet above the 

 sea. It lives in small flocks (? families), which keep, 

 much in thick bushes and fe§d on fruit. They fly 

 from bush to bush with a moderately rapid, very straight 

 flight, and evidently have no great power pf wing, the. 

 different individuals following each other in the m,annei; 

 of Crateropi or Malacocerci, which they also somewhat 

 resemble in their flight — so much so, that I took the first 

 flocks I saw for some very long-tailed members of the 

 Crateropidcs. 



1 saw this bird frequently in Tigr4 and a few speci- 

 mens occurred in the Anseba valley ; but it was less 

 abundant there than the next species. On July 16th 

 I found a nest with two very young birds. It was a 

 small flat platform of sticks in a thorny bush. 



