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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on a 
Throughout this paper Dr. Reichenow*s work f Die Vogel 
Afrikas * is quoted as “ Reich.** 
My sincere thanks are due to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, of the 
British Museum, for his kindness in allowing me to 
work out this interesting collection, and for the great help he 
has given me throughout; also to his attendant Mr. Wells 
for much valuable assistance. 
Family Sturnim. 
Dilophus carunculatus (Gmel.). 
Perissornis carunculatus Reich, ii. p. 670 (1903). 
a, b. S ? • Dubar, 10th & 11th June, 1905. 
Iris pale brown ; bill horn-coloured; upper mandible darker 
than the lower; gape yellow; legs and feet grey with a 
brownish tinge. 
Pholidauges leucogaster (Gm.). 
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster Reich, ii. p. 679 (1903). 
a-e. S ? et $ imm. Dubar, 12th-30th May, 1905. 
A female shot on the 28th of May had well-developed 
eggs in the ovary. 
One bird shot on the 26th of May is in the brown 
plumage of the female, but the spots on the throat and 
breast are larger and darker. 
Another shot on the 28th of May, and marked “ male/* is 
also in plumage similar to that of the female, but has a 
few irregular metallic feathers on the back and secondary 
coverts. 
An example shot on the 30th of May in the plumage of 
the fully adult male is said by Mr. Bury to be a female, and 
he notes that a the ovary contained unmistakable eggs.** 
If the sex of this bird has been correctly ascertained, and 
the bodies have not been mixed in the skinning, it seems to 
prove the correctness of the view held by some ornithologists, 
that the adult female in North-East African birds becomes 
metallic like the male. This is alluded to by Dr. Sharpe in the 
( Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum* (xiii. p. 122). 
It must be remarked that in many instances the sexes of 
