SUDAN BIRDS

("With either the whole head bare orwith at least bare spaces round the^ J eyes and on sides of throat. Adultj breeding male with conspicuousfacial wattles ... ... ... Creatophora carunculata, 582.(^Head completely feathered ... 5f Abdomen deep chestnut 7. j Abdomen white or tinged withI cinnamon ... ... ... ... 6(_ Abdomen black with metallic gloss ... 8n f Chest and upper parts metallic violet Cinnyricinclus leucogaster, 585.\ Chest white, upper parts steel blue ... Pholia sharpei, 586.m /"Under tail-coverts white ... ... Spreo superbus, 588.\ Under tail -coverts chestnut ... ... Spreo y«fc/»er, 587.Tail shorter than the wing; headcoloured like the rest of the upperparts... ... ... ... ... 98. •{ Tail as long as, or longer than, thewing ; head metallic bronze-green,contrasting with the rest of theplumage ... ... ... ... 13("Throat and breast glossed witha J metallic violet ... ... ... 10] Throat and breast glossed with(_ metallic green or blue ... ... 11("Smaller, wing under 6 ins. ; top of10 J head metallic violet ... ... Larnprocolius purpureus, 593.j Larger, wing over 6 ins. ; top of headL metallic green ... ... ... Larnprocolius splendidus, 594.("Tail glossed with metallic violet or11. •< bronze above ... ... ... Larnprocolius chalcurus, 591.l^Tail glossed with metallic green above 12("Larger, wing over 5 ins. ; ear-coverts, 9 J not sharply defined ... ... Larnprocolius chalybeus, 590.| Smaller, wing under 5 ins. ; ear-[_ coverts sharply defined in colour ... Larnprocolius chloropterus, 592., o f Back of neck metallic green ... ... Lamprotornis caudatus, 595.\Back of neck metallic purple ... Lamprotornis purpuropterus, 596.Sub-family:582. WATTLED STARLING.Creatophora carunculata (Gmel.).Resident—savana—not common.STURNINJS.MOUNTED.S.G.M. 1465,