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6. Poicephalus gulielmi aubryanus (Soimno^). 



This form, in which the bill is nearly as lavgo as in P. robustus sua/telicus, and 

 which also has longer wiugs than F. y. gulielmi, is distriLnted over Kamerun and 

 Gabnn. 



There is only one sjiecimeu in the Triug Mnseum : 

 S jnv. Bipinde, Kamernu ...... 10. i. 07. Zenker coll. 



7. Poicephalus gulielmi massaicus Fschr. A. Rchw. 



Tin's form is distributed over the high moinitiiins of East Africa — Ssigejo, Man, 

 Kenia, Kiknvn, and Kiliiuandjaro. 



It differs from 1'. g.tjiilii'lmi by its smaller bill and longer wiugs, and by its 

 pnle feet. The bird is lighter than P. g. gulielmi, &\v\ the scarlet of the forehead 

 is more restricted and never continned over the whole crown. 



The following specimens are in the Tring Mnseum : 

 4 cJtJ, 4 ? ¥. Escarpment Station, Kiyuyu xi.-xii. 1900. Doherty coll. 



juv., not sexed, probably Man or Kikuyu . Jackson ,, 



S, Poicephalus flavifrons flavifrons (Riipp). 



The true P. flavifrons was described from Shoa, and is distributed southwards 

 to the mountains of the Omo region, northwards, perhaps to the Ataba Valley in 

 North Abyssinia. 



Heuglin's P.citreocapillxs cannot be the very old bird of this species, as 

 suggested by Heichenow. It is true that the extension of the yellow colour on 

 the head varies a good deal in P.fladfrom, but in the large series collected by the 

 late Baron Erlauger and myself in Shoa and Southern Ethiopia, as well as in all 

 the s]iecimens which came from these regions to the London and Genoa Museums, 

 there is none which has a bluish breast and a blue rump, as Heuglin's two specimens 

 in Stuttgart and Leyden have. It only remains that citreocapillus is a distinct 

 sjiecies, or that the two specimens are hybritls between P.flazifrons and P. meyeri. 

 New material from North Abyssinia is much wanted to be compared \vith the 

 Shoa specimens. 



P.crassus Sharpe, which was wrongly united io P. flavifrons by Reichenow, 

 is a totally distinct species, as J have ])ointed out in Journ. f. Orn. 1904. p. 376. 

 The following specimens of P. /.flavifrons are in the Tring Musenm : 



9. Ejere, Shoa 10. ix. 00. 0. Neumann coll. 



<J, 2 SS. Tscheriitscha, Meta, Shoa . 



cJ ? . Abuje, Gindeberat, „ 



(?. Madali, Upper Abai, „ 



•ZSS. Alelu, north of Lake Abassi . . 3. xii. oo. „ 



J. Senti Valley, between Uba and Gofa . 29. i. ol. „ 



9. Poicephalus flavifrons aurantiiceps Neum. 



This form is distinguished by the remarkable orange-red suffusion of the yellow 

 pails of the head. 



It inhabits the western parts of South Ethiojiia— /.«. tue source region of the 

 Sobat River system. 



