NOVTTATES ZOOLOOIOAB XXVI. 1919. 145 



125. Pyromelaena ansorgei Hart. = Pyromelaena ansorgei (? P. friedrichseni 



ansorgei). 



Pyromelaena ansorgei Hartert, Ansorge's Under the African Sun, p. 344, pi. U. (1899 — ^Masindi, 

 Unyoro). 



Type: <?, Masindi, Unyoro, 17. vi. 1897. Dr. W. J. Ansorge leg. No. 147. 

 Cf. Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 47. Possibly this bird may be a 

 subspecies of P. friedrichseni, though perfectly distinct. 



t 126. Penthetria hartlaubi Cab. = Pyromelaena ansorgei. 



Penlheiria Hartlaubi Cabanis (nee Socage !), Journal f. Orn. 1883. p. 218 (" Lado." Ex Hartlaub, 

 Abh. not. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 202, sub nomine P. concolor). 



Type : S (in winter dress), Wakkala (or Okkela, east-south-east of Lado), 

 7.iv. 1881. Emin Pasha leg. No. 24. 



f 127. Coliuspasser dubiosus Neum. = Pyromelaena ansorgei. 

 Colitispasser dubioma Neumann, Jvam. /. Orn. 1905. p. 348 (Gelo or Akobo, April or May 1901). 



Type : $ (in winter dress), CJelo or Akobo, April or May 1901. Oscar 

 Neumann leg. 



Cf. Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 47, December 1908. 



t 128. Ploceus flavissimus Neum. 

 Plocetis flavissimus Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1907. p. 595 (Soullouk^). 



Type: <J, 22. viii. 1904. No. 460. 



The type — a single specimen ! — ^mostly canary-yellow and with white 

 shafts to primaries and rectrices, with strongly worn tips to the quills, so much 

 abraded, in fact, that the wings cannot be properly measured, is in my opinion 

 evidently an aberrant specimen, and the case of xanthopterus is quite different. 

 Probably this bird is an aberration of P. galbula, though Neumann denies it. 



f 129. Urobrachya phoenicae quanzae Hart. = Urobrachya axillaris 



mechowi. 

 Urobrachya yhoenicea quanzae Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xiii. p. 56 (1903 — Quanza River). 



Type: (J ad., Burraca, Quanza River, Angola, 28. v. 1901. C. Hubert 

 Pemberton leg. No. 561. 



When describing this supposed new form, our African collection was still 

 very small. I sent the specimen to Reichenow, who wTote on the label " Uro- 

 brachya sp. n. aff. hildebrandti," after which I had no doubt that 1 had a new 

 species, or rather subspecies before me. It is strange that Reichenow did not 

 refer to mechowi, and also in his Vog. Afr. iii. p. 133 united mechowi with bocagei 

 and kept my quanzae separate. He distinguishes mechowi (which he unites 

 with bocagei) as having the small upper wing-coverts orange-yellow, while he 

 calls those of my quanzae fire-red. Cabanis, in the original description, 

 calls the lesser upper coverts of mechowi " hochgelb," but in spite of this, 

 I think that Shelley {B. Afr. iv. p. 68) was right in uniting quanzae with 

 mechowi, which is not at all the same as bocagei. U-. axillaris bocagei inhabits only 

 Benguella (Caconda, Huilla, Kuvali River, Caculovar River). It is a much 



10 



