. The Ibis . ich is arare species, was procured in KafEa on the 10th of June. 4. Lamprotobnis porphyropterus. Lamprotornis 2>orphyro2)terus Heugl,; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis,1907, p. 580. Examples of this Purple-winged Glossy Starling wereobtained in the neighbourhood of Addis Abbaba, LakeHeleue, Lake Zwai, Bulbula, Uba, the Sagan River, andBaroda. 5. Lamprocolius chalybeus. Lamprocolias chalybeus Ehrenb. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis,1901, p. 611. Examples of this Common Glossy Starling were procuredat the Akaki River, Holata, and Mergeta, all in the ^^-bourhood of Addis Abbaba ; also at Baroda, Kul
. The Ibis . ich is arare species, was procured in KafEa on the 10th of June. 4. Lamprotobnis porphyropterus. Lamprotornis 2>orphyro2)terus Heugl,; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis,1907, p. 580. Examples of this Purple-winged Glossy Starling wereobtained in the neighbourhood of Addis Abbaba, LakeHeleue, Lake Zwai, Bulbula, Uba, the Sagan River, andBaroda. 5. Lamprocolius chalybeus. Lamprocolias chalybeus Ehrenb. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis,1901, p. 611. Examples of this Common Glossy Starling were procuredat the Akaki River, Holata, and Mergeta, all in the ^^-bourhood of Addis Abbaba ; also at Baroda, Kullo, Gr^^^yWalamo, Kambata, and on an island in Lake Zwai, whereit was evidently breeding, as a quite young male exauipiewas obtained together with adult birds in December. 6. Lamprocolius cyanogenys. Lamprocolius cyanogenys Sundev. Q^]fv. , p. 127. [ Africa.] Lamprotornis cyanogenys Puch. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1858,p. 254. As Pucheran pointed out in 1858, Abyssinian examples IBIS-1913 Birds from Southern Abt/ssifiia. 557 of tlie Little Glossy Starling differ from West African speci-mens ol: L. chloropterus Swains, in having a well-markeddeep purplish-blue patch on the lesser wing-coverts. InL. chloropterus the wing-coverts are greenish steel-bluewithout any trace of purple. As this character appears tobe perfectly constant in a tolerably large series of specimensfrom West Africa, I propose to distinguish the birds Africa under the above name. All the specimens procured by Zaphiro at Kullo and Gofaon the Omo River are immature, with the breast reddish-brown and the back dull golden-green. Shelley, in his ^ Birds of Africa/ v. p. 34 (1906), unitesboth the above-named smaller forms with the largerL. sycobius and L. chalybeus, all being placed under thelatter name. On re-examining the question I am unable toagree with his conclusions, the differences between thevarious forms being easily recognised. 7. Spreo superbus. Spreo superbus (Riipp.) ; Ogi
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