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Uritisili ( istiil'rika." Type uot located: I accept as the typical locality Kiikniiin, as 

 beiiijr tilt' first locality named by the author. Masai-Laiul and Kilimanjaro cannot 

 be taken as the typical locality, as the author says that specimens from there are 

 " etwas grosser, Fliigel 8U — 83 mm." instead of 77 — 81.) 



Si.\teen 'specimens from the Kikuyu mountains GOOD— 8UU0 ft. high. Adult 

 nwli's have the lores XAnck, females and young males have whitish lores. Iris of 

 adult males scarlet; "light brownish," " j-ellowish orange," "light orange" in 

 females and yoimg males. The wings of the adult males, measured after my method, 

 are 81—84 mm. long. A male specimen collected by Oscar Neumann in Usegua 

 and received from him as D. cubla saalielicus has the wing also .s4 mm. long. 

 J), c. sunhelicKs is a well-marked subspecies, but it would be startling to separate 

 it as a " good species '" in the old sense. 



0. Laniarius aethiopicus aethiopicus (Gm.). 



Laiiids aethiopicus Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. i. (2) p. S24 (1788) (ex Bnft'on and 

 Latham. " Hab. in Abyssiniae silvis "). 



Doherty sent a series of thirteen adult specimens from the Kikuyu mountains, 

 collected from September 1900 to March 1901, at elevations from 7000—9000 ft. 

 " Iris chestnut (sometimes deep brown), bill black, feet slaty-blue (or slate-grey, or 

 imiform grey)." 



The above name is the correct one for this form. It does not belong to the 

 genus Dn/oscopas, but is a Laniarius (cf. Neumann, J. f 0. 1S99). The specimens 

 from Doherty agree with (ty]iical) Abyssinian birds. /.. aethiopiras major is only 

 ii subspecies, single individuals sometimes being indistinguishable, while a series 

 is always recognisable. Eight Abyssinian birds are devoid of white edges to the 

 secondaries, with the exception of one specimen ; thirteen specimens sent by Doherty 

 have no white edgings, excejjt two, one of which has only a trace. All birds from 

 Uganda and Uuyoro (collected by Dr. Ansorge) have wide white edges to two 

 secondaries, and so have a number collected by Jackson at Nandi. The form from 

 Uganda, Uuyoro, and Nandi is therefore L. aethiopicus major Hartl., first described 

 from Elmina on the Gold Coast, collected by Weiss. 



7. Laniarius funebris (Hartl.). 



Jh-i/oseopiisfitnehris Hartl, P. Z. S. i8(i3. ji. lo.") (Meninga, interior of East 



Africa). 



Fifteen specimens, all Escarpment, (i.jOU ft., collected in Novemlier and 

 December 1900, .January and February 1901. " Iris deej) brown, feet and bill 

 black." 



The sexes are alike in colour, but i\\v female is mucli smaller. Wing of males -. 

 Q2—'i)-), oi' females : 8.") — 92 mm. 



(Two specimens from Somalilaud (Dr. Donaldson Smith coll.) arc somewhat 

 paler oil the abdomen, <'s]iecially the female.) 



Oscar Neumann {■/. f. 0. 1899. p. 409) is doubtless right in phu-iiig this species 

 in the genus Laniarius and not in Drijoscoi>us ! 



