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the thighs is )'ellow instead of red, and the feathers of the nietararpal edge are 

 mixed red and yellow. A few 3-ellow feathers on the upper half of the thighs are 

 also found in one female, collected at the same date. 



5. Poicephalus g'ulielmi gulielmi (Jard.). 



Piniiiis iiiilifhiii Jiird., Conlr. Orn. 1K4'.I, p. lU, pi. 28 [Congo]. 



In P. gulielmi and its subspecies both sexes seem to be coloured alike, and the 

 red or orange forehead and crown is marked alike in male and female, but it is 

 absent in younger birds. Concerning the nomenclature the following is to be said : 



Jardine described as Pionns f/idielmi a living specimen which his son had 

 brought from the west coast of Afitca, and it is expressly stated that the bird 

 came from the Congo. Jardine described the colour of the forehead, crown, edges 

 of wing and lower tiiiglis as " bright yellowish scarlet." In four copies of his 

 "Contributions," whicli I have examined, the plate shows these parts scarlet and not 

 orauge-yellow. There is no reason whatever why the name of gulielmi ought to be 

 attributed to the Gold Coast binl, as the description of " bright yellowish scarlet " 

 fits very well the bird from the Congo and other parts of Lower Guinea, but never 

 that from the Gold Coast. 



Sonance, in describing his auhrijanua, did not point out any differences in 

 coloration, but simply stated that his new auhn/anus was larger, in which he was 

 right, and that it had a white npi)or mandible, which is more or less the case in all 

 the subspecies oi gulielmi. 



The bird from the Gold Coast, with the forehead, crown, edges of wings and 

 upper thighs orauge-yellow instead of yellowi.sh scarlet, the P. gulielmi (nee 

 Jardine), Salvad., Cat. Birds xs. p. 306; Reichenow, Vot/el Afriha.s, ii. p. U, thus 

 requires a new name. I call it : 



Poicephalus gulielmi fantiensis subsp. n. 



Ilah. : Gold (Joast. 

 • Type iu the British JIuseura : ad. Fanti . . Ussher coll. 



As to the supposed differences lietween true qulielni and anbri/anu.'i, I find that 

 Souancd was absolutely right. I have examined his tj-pe in Paris. It is n)U(^h 

 larger and has a much larger bill than birds from the Congo and Angola, and 

 so have all specimens from Kamerun and Gabun. ^Ving iu /'. g. gulielmi 

 101) — 190 mm., in P. q. aubninnuK 2i)2 — 22H mm. 



Wo thus have four geographical forms of /'. gulielmi : 



P. (J. fitiitie/i.'fiit^ Neum. Gold Coast. 



1'. g. auhrifanua, .Sonanc6. Kamerun and Gabun. 



1'. g. ffulielmi. Ja.r(]. Congo and North Angola, eastwards to the Ubangi and 

 Ituri Rivers. 



P. g. massaicu.s, Fschr. and Hchw. East African high mountains : Mcrn, 

 Kilimandjaro, Keuia, Kiknyn, Man. 



The following specimens of P. </. gulielmi are in the Tring Museum : 



1 ad. Mayumba (Luki), Congo received through ContrcVas. 



?. Sakurambi, near Fort Belli, Upper Ituri . . 5. v. 99. An.sorge coll. 

 Ad. Golungo Alto, North Angola .... ;> u 



