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1(13. Cossypha heuglini llartl. 



<J a<l. Kitagwetoa in Torn, 6. 4. IsnO. " Iris diocolate-brown. Feet purplisb 

 brown. Bill black." This s]>ecimen bas a wliite frontal band of 3 to 4 mm. 1 have 

 not found this in any specimen in Triug and London. 



1G4. Cossypha subrufescens Boo. 



Nairobe, 5. 2. 1899. " Iris dark lirown, feet and bill black." I follow Sharpe, 

 Reichenow, and Shelley in identifying the East African birds with C. subrufescens 

 of Bocage, but I have not been able to compare specimens. 



1(5.5. Myrmecocichla nigra (Vieill.) 



5 ad. Kiclinchu in Torn, ."). 4. 1>)99. "Iris dark brown." The birds without 

 white on throat and crown — black all over with only a large white shoulder-patch — 

 mnst be called by Vieillot's name nit/ra, based on Levaillant's Traquet f'om- 

 mandenr. J/, arnofti is a totally different species. 



Professor Reichenow considers the totally blackish birds without white shonlder- 

 ]iatch also to be ^f. nigra. AVe have got some from Uganda and Karimia. If tliey 

 really are M. nigra, then it is cnrious that they are all brownish, not pure black, 

 while those with the white shoulders are all deep glossy black. The latter are in 

 fresh jjlnmage, while the brown ones — although shot in the same month — are worn, 

 but it is strange that this state of plumage is the same in all of tliem, and that in 

 our good series there are no transitional examples. 



1(5(!. Myrmecocichla cryptoleuca Sharpe. 

 (?(? Nairobe, 1.2. 1899. " Iris brown." 



1()T. Myrmecocichla subrufipennis Rihw. 



6 ad. Kinyomozi in Torn, 4. 4. 1899. " Iris brown. Bill and feet black." 



108. Saxicola pleschanka (Lepech.) 

 Nairobe, 27, 29, 30. 1. 1899. 



109. Saxicola isabellina Cretzschm. 

 Nairobe, 29. 1. 1899. Campi-ya-Simba, 11. 1. 1899. 



ITtJ. Pratincola rubetra (L.) 

 Uganda Projier, JIarch 1899. 



ITl. Pratincola axillaris Shelley. 



From Kiwalogoma (Chagwe), Lake Varangot in Torn, and Fort Gerry in Toru, 

 we have received specimens which fully agree with the typical series of Pratincola 

 emmae Hartlanb, bnt Professor Reichenow unites P. axillaris and P. e/nmae. 



