SOMALILAND 
306 
Grakle {Amydms mono). 
Sheik Mohamed. 
Iris bright red ; general colour dark steel-blue ; tail brownish ; wings deep 
rufous, the large feathers more or less tipped with brown-black. Length 
13 inches. 
White-headed Starling (Hete7vpsar albicapilhis). 
Bally Maroli. 
Length of skin 10:| inches ; wings, back, and tail a metallic green-blue ; 
secondary coverts white ; back of head white ; chin, chest, and breast 
brown, pencilled with white streaks ; under tail-coverts white ; beak and 
legs black ; iris white. 
Red-billed Ox-pecker {Buplmga erythrorhyncha). 
Throughout Ogaden and the Boorgha country and along the banks of the 
Webbi Shebeyli. 
Length of skin 7^ inches ; bright red beak ; back, wings and tail brown ; 
under parts buff ; iris orange. 
Green Glossy Starling {Lamprocolms, chalybeus). 
Dabulli. 
Iris golden yellow ; colour metallic blue -green ; a dark spot near the ear and 
at the end of the feathers of the upper wing coverts and secondaries. In 
the yomig the upper parts alone are metallic, the lower parts being a dark 
gray-brown. 
Glossy Starling {Lamprotoniis porphyropterus). 
Sheik Husein. 
Tail long ; under tail-coverts and flanks purple-red ; bill and feet black ; iris 
pale yellow. Length 14 inches. 
Superb Glossy Starling {Lamprotornis superbus). 
Guban, between Berbera and Hargaisa, and throughout Ogaden. 
Length of skin 6^ inches ; head, back, wings, and tail metallic blue, followed 
by a band of white ; lower part of breast dark-red ; iris cream. 
Yellow-bellied Glossy Starling {Gosmopsarus regius). 
Lehello. 
Length of skin lOf inches. One of the handsomest and tamest birds in 
Somaliland. Head metallic green ; back metallic blue ; tail blue-black ; 
upper part of breast metallic red ; lower part and under tail-coverts 
brilliant orange ; iris white. 
Shelley’s Glossy Starling {Spres shelleyi). 
Lehello. 
Length of skin 5| inches ; back of head and tail, back and wings, glossy 
blue-black ; chin and breast dark-red ; bill and feet black ; iris orange. 
Drongo (Buchanga assimilis). 
Lehello. 
Length of skin 9 inches ; colour blue-black ; beak and legs black ; black 
bristles round beak. 
