AFES. 399 



All the three species of Amydrus collected by me 

 appeared to be mainly if not entirely frugivorous, living 

 chiefly on the fruits of various kinds of Ficus, of Juni- 

 perus procera, &c. They also occasionally feed on the 

 ground on seeds. They roost at night amongst rocks 

 in large communities. 



igi. A. Blythii, Hartl. 



Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 32. — Heugl. Joum. f. Om. 



1869, p. 14. 

 A. Ruppelli, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1836, p. 300. 



This appears to be a fairly distinguishable race so far 

 as my specimens show. It has, I believe, never been 

 brought to Europe before, the only known examples 

 being in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 at Calcutta, brought by Captain Speke from Somali 

 land. The female differs more conspicuously from 

 A. Ruppelli than the male does ; for in A. Blythii the 

 whole head and neck are ashy grey, the colour terminating 

 abruptly, and not passing into the black of the neck and 

 breast, whUst in A. Ruppelli the feathers have black 

 centres, which increase in size below until aU become 

 black. Both sexes of A. Blythii are larger, but with a 

 smaller biU, than A. Ruppelli. In the former species 

 also the dusky tips to the chestnut primary quUls are 

 larger and more marked, on the first primary especially ; 

 nearly two inches of the inner web and from two and a 

 half to three inches of the outer web are entirely dusky ; 

 whilst in A. Ruppelli all near the centre is rufous. 



As this race appears never to have been described 



