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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on a 
Iris orange (male) ; pale yellowish-green (female). Bill, 
legs, and feet black. 
The British Museum contains two examples of this rare 
Starling,—the type-specimen, an adult from Somaliland 
collected by Mr. Lort Phillips, and an immature male from 
Webbi Shebeyli procured by Mr. F. Gillett. Mr. Bury 
obtained a small series of examples including three adults 
and a number of immature specimens, which shew all the 
changes in plumage from the very young bird, with the 
breast-feathers brownish-buff streaked with dark brown, to 
the adult. 
Cosmopsarus regius Reichenow. 
Cosmopsarus regius Reich, li. p. 713 (1903). 
a-q. <$ $ . Burao, 5th Jan.-20th Mar., 1906. 
A fine series of this splendid Starling, all in fully adult 
plumage. 
Amydrus blythi Hartl. 
Amydrus blythi Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 395; Grant, 
Nat. Hist. Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, p. 23 (1903). 
a-j ’. S ? et S ? imm. Dubar, 1st May-lst June, 1905. 
g-n. <$ $ et $ imm. Waghar, 10th July-28th Oct., 1905. 
The immature female does not possess the grey head and 
hind-neck of the adult, but resembles the adult male, lacking, 
however, the marked purplish gloss on the feathers of the 
head and back, while the breast is of a dull brown colour. 
[Always seen in flocks feeding on wild figs; the birds had 
not paired on the 12th of May.— G. W. R.] 
Buphaga erythrorhyncha (Stanl.). 
Buphagus erythrorhynchus Reich, ii. p. 667 (1903). 
a. S • Waghar, 15th July, 1905. 
Family DicruridjE. 
Buchanga assimilis (Bechst.). 
Buchanga assimilis Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 396. 
Dicrurus afer Reich, ii. p. 646 (1903). 
a-b. $ $ . Geloko, 20th June, 1905. 
