162 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



93. Melittophagus bullockoides (Smith). 



Merops bullockoides A, Smith, South African Quarterly Journal, 

 II. (1834) p. 320. 



c?, Dec., d 1 , d\ d 1 , 9 , 9 , 9 , Jan., Kijabe. 



94. Merops apiaster Linn&us. 



Systema Naturae, loth ed. (1758), p. 117. 



d\ Oct., Red Sea. 



V , 9 , Oct., Tana River. 



Family Caprimulffidae. 



95. Caprimulgus fraenatus Salvadori. 



Annali Museo Civico di Storia Natural di Geneva, 1884, p. 118. 

 Shoa. 



9,9, Nov., Athi River. 



c? juv., Dec., Lucania. 



The upper aspect of the juvenile specimen is cinnamon and gray 

 mottled uniformly fron head to tail, the body of each feather being 

 finely vermiculated dusky and buff and terminated by a cinna- 

 mon tip. 



See SHARPE, Ibis, 1900, p. 499, characters. 



Family Coliidse. 



96. Colius striatus affinis (Shell.). 



Colius leucotis affinis Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 312. East Africa. 



d\ cT, Dec., Lucania. 



d 1 , c?, d 1 , d 1 , d\ d\ <5\ 9 , Jan., Kijabe. 



"Climb trees and use their tails as braces like woodpeckers. 

 Occur in flocks." 



See SHARPE, Ibis, 1902, p. in, geographical and individual 

 variation (under C. berlepschi) ; id. Proceedings of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, London, 1900, p. 600, individual variation; HARTERT in A*i- 

 sorge's Under the African Sun, pp. 332-334, subspecies of leucotis; 

 ERLANGER, Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1905, pp. 487-489, leucotis, 

 affinis, minor and nigricollis subspecies of C. striatus; NEUMANN, ibid, 

 pp. 403405, subspecies of striatus and their distribution. 



