4li(l XnviTATF.s Zooi.ooiiAK XXIV. ini7. 



We Jiavt- 5 rj ami one ? froni .Menakha and Wasil and one ,j fifin Sok-al- 

 Khaniis. 7,000 ft.. IS. vii. 1913. 



'I'here is probably a tliird race in East Africa. A male collectrd by William 

 Doherty on tlic Escarpment, Kikuyn M(iuntains, has the brown on the inner web 

 of the outer rectrices nearly 15 mm. wde, and a wing of about 90 mm. A female 

 from the same place has also rather much bro'WTi on the lateral rectrices, wliile 

 two young females are rather brown on the upperside. More material ■nill very 

 likely show the Kiknyu bird to belong to a third subspecies, for it can hardly 

 be the Arabian form, and its habitat is also far a'way from Abyssinia and Noith 

 vSomalilaiid. 



Prunella fagani (O. -Grant). 



Accentor fagani Ofii\vie(iii-mt. Bull. B. A. I'liih. xxxi. p. 88 (191.1 — Yemen): Sclater, //;i.s, 1017. 

 p. 162. 



The Tring Museum has received '1 o and 2 ? of this very interesting biid. 

 It appears to be nearest to P. ocularis, which has been very wrongly united with 

 fulvescens; in Vog. d. pat. Fauna I. p. 770, I treated it as a sub.species of 

 fulvescens. and if that view is correct, I suppose P. fngnni must also be called 

 Prunella fulvescens fagani. 



Phoenicvirus ochruros phoenicuroides (Moore). 



RiiticiUa phoenicuroides Monre. /'ror. Znnl. Sor. l.dnrion, xxii. p. 25. pi. Ares Ivii. (18.55 — 

 Northern India). 



3 <J ad. Menakha. 20, 23.xii. 1912, l.ii. 1913. 



In two of these specimens the black on the mantle (always hidden by grej- 

 edges to the feathers in autumn and winter) is not present : it always varies 

 in extent, and I have before me specimens from southern Transcaspia in which 

 it is absent, while in others it is well developed. 



Mr. Sclater only mentioned Phoenicxirus phoenicvrus phoenicurvs and mesv- 

 leuctis from Menakha, Wasil, Hajeilah. and Hodeida. On examining these 

 specimens I find that the mesolcucus were correctly named, but that only those 

 from Wasil and Hodeida. apparently also the female from Hajeilah, were phoe- 

 nicurus, while those from Menakha, like the specimens in the Tring Museum, 

 belong to phoenicvroifles. which T have treated as a sub.species of ochruros f Vug- 

 pal. Favna, p. 723). 



Saxicola toiauata rubicola (L.). 



Motacilla Ruhicoln l.imiaeu.s, Sijst. Xnt. eel. xii. I. 1. p. 3.32 (1760 — Ex .Aldrovandns. .Alhin, 

 Bris-son, Willugby. Terra typica: France, ex Brisson). 



VV'c have received 6 cJ and 3 $ from Menakha, shot in December and January, 

 which belong to the European form, rvhicola, having spotted upper tail-coverts 

 and no white at the base of the tail. 



Saxicola torquata mauia (Pali.). 



Mnlacilla mnvra Pallas, Jleise d. versch. Prov. Riiss. Rrirh.i, ii. p. 708 (1773 — S. Ural and between 

 rivers Tobul and Irtish). 



1 $ Hajeilah, 2,080 ft., 7. iv. 1913. has whitish, unspotted upper tail-coverts, 

 and white bases to the tail-feathers. It belong.s therefore to 8. I. mavru. Selatir 



