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13. Sporopipes squainifrons daniarensis Rchw. 



Snbspeciei Sporopipes squamifrons squamifrons dictae persimilis, sed statura 

 minore, dorso pallidiore distinguendus. Hal)., Benguella. 



The specimens collected by Dr. Ansorge are strikingly smaller and the 

 colour of the npperside is somewhat paler. 



Dr. Ansorge sent four specimens : 



2 c?c? ad., 1 ? ad., 1 <$ jnn., Huxe, Bengnella, 2, 6. vii. 04. "Iris brown- 

 ochre, feet grey- violet, bill pink, bat extreme tip of upper bill brown, and root 

 of lower whitish grey. 



The bill measures 9 to 99 mm., against 95 to 105 in S. squamifrons 

 squamifrons, the wing 54 to 55, against 57 to 60 in S. squamifrons squamifrons. 



We have a series of S. s. squamifrons from Damaraland (Anderssou), 

 De Wet's Drift on the Vaal River (Ayres), Modder River, Transvaal (Gnillemard), 

 Rhenoster River (Guillemard), Pretoria (Distant), Limpopo (Eriksson). 



1 had just described this bird as a new subspecies in MS. when Prof. 

 Reichenow's new name appeared in the Appendix to his book (p. 838, 1905). 



14. Sporopipes frontalis (Daud.). 



Cf. Reichenow, Viig. Afr. iii. p. 17. 



2 c?c? ad., 1 ?, Adarte, Erythrea, 7, 26. xi., 1. xii. 99. G. Schrader coll. 



1 <? ad., Chadi-Saati, Erythrea, 4675 ft. high, on the Mareb River. G. 

 Schrader coll. 



15. Malimbus rubricollis rubricollis (Swains.). 



Ploceus rubricollis Swainson, Anim. in Menag.p. 30G (1838 -ex Vieillot, Oix. Chant, p. 72. PI. 43, 

 where the present species is described as the J of Malimbus cristatue. The types were brought 

 home by Perrein from Malimbe, in the south of the present German colony of Kamerun). 



This form ranges from Kamerun to the Congo. We have eight specimens 

 from Kamerun and Fernando Po. The specimens from Fernando Po might be 

 separated again, as their bills appear to be still larger than in the Kamerun 

 examples, but better series must be compared to confirm these slight differences. 



16. Malimbus rubricollis bartletti Sharpe. 



Malimbus bartletti Sharpe, Cut. B. xiii. p. 479 (18110 — "West Africa from Liberia to the Gold 

 Coast." Terra typica not indicated !). 



Besides some skins from the Gold Coast we have the following specimens 



collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge : 



7 c?c?, 8 ? ?, Oguta on the Lower Niger, July to November 1901. "Iris 



chocolate-brown; bill and feet black." (Nos. 53, 56, 58, 59, 83, 218, 230, 231, 277, 



285, 286, 287, 372, 37:3, 421.) 



1 ? ad., Gregani, Southern Nigeria, 24. xi. 01. (No. 343.) 



3 $$, 1 ?, Degama, Southern Nigeria, 7. vi. 02. (Nos. 54, 499, 514, 515.) 



1 $ ad., Ugmgn on the Amambaru Creek, Lower Niger, 25. xi. 02. (Braham 



coll.) 



The young male has the forehead dark brown, nearly black. This subspecies 



is closely allied to M. r. rubricollis, but differs in having the head of a somewhat 



darker and more crimson red, and in being slightly larger, at least the bill being 



generally larger. 



