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tlie eyes deeji black, the anriculav region dark greyisli slate-colour, exactly like the 

 two from Faiitee and Landana mentioned above, and I therefore must consider it 

 to belong to the typical mJJ'uixopectus and not to the South (and East) African 

 C. siilfiirfoiicctiix chrysoijiixter. 



1 1 ■ Telephonus senegalus (L.)- 



Lan)U-'< Si'iii'ijalm L., Si/st. Nat. ed. xii. (ITiKi) p. I:i7 (Senegal). 



Three skins, labelled " ?, Escarpment, A'olcano in Rift, 7000 ft., .January, 



1901," "c?, Escarpment, fi.500 ft.," "?, Escari.ment, 4500 ft." They doubtless 



belong to T. scni't/alus, and not to the smaller and easily distinguishable T. hlaii- 



Jordi, though T. senegalm may perhaps be split into various subspecies, if a larsjer 



material is carefully studied. 



V'. Telephonus australis emini Kchw. 



'rdrjilionKx aastralis emini Rchw., (hn. MoimtljiT. 1893. p. Gi) (Bukoba). 



A series of eleven specimens from the Kikuyu ^Mountains above the Escarp- 

 ment, 6500 to SI 100 ft. " Iris chestnut (or crimson-chestnut, bounded by lighter 

 lines, or deep brown), feet whitish blue (grey-blue, pale blue), bill black." 



These specimens belong evidently to Reichenow's emini. Their wings measure 

 To to 80 mm. The various forms of this group are most closely allied. T.uiistiaUa 

 atistnilis fri>m South Africa is more brownish-yellowish underneath, but l)y no means 

 very distinct. The nearest to T. a. emini is the West African 7'. a. <issheri. I have 

 examined the type in the British Museum, from the Volta River, and I found it 

 hardly distinguishable, except that the sides of the breast and abdomen were a little 

 darker, more ashy, while the skin from Fantee was still more difficult to distinguish. 

 In any case they can only be subspecies. 7'. a. minor Rchw., from East Africa, 

 is smaller and lighter, and is well distinguishable. We have, therefore, the following- 

 forms of T. uK.itrali.i : 



T. au,ifraUx auxtraliis S. Africa. — T. a., minor E. Africa. — T. u. n.f.-^lieri W. 

 Africa. — T. ((. emini. Eastern parts of the W. African region. Very closely allied 

 10 usskeri. 



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