160 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 



210. Serinus angolensis somereni Hart. = Serimis angolensis somereni. 



Serinus angolensis somereni Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 63 (1912 — Tore, Uganda). 



Type : (^ (and 9, pair), Toro, November 1910. Dr. R. V. L. van Someren 

 leg. 



211. Serinus leucopygius riggenbachi Neum. = Serinus leucopygius riggenbachi. 



hrinus leucopygius riggenbachi Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 44 (1908 — " Senegambia and 

 Western Sudan "). 



Type: o', Thies (inland Dakar), 24. v. 1907. F. W. Riggenbach leg. No. 



519. 



212. Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellm. = Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae. 



Sicalis columbiana leopoldinae Hellmayr, Bull. B.O. Club, xvi. p. 85 (1906 — S. Leopoldina, Rio 

 Araguay, Goiaz, C. Brazdl). 



Type : cj ad., S. Leopoldina, 15. viii. 1880. Dr. Ehrenreich and Prof. Karl 

 von den Steinen leg. No. 100. 



t 213. Loxia curvirostra anglica Hart. = Loxia curvirostra curvirostra. 

 Loxia curvirostra anglica Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 119 (1904 — England). 



Type: (J, High Scrubs, Tring, 7. xii. 1897. No. 1890. 



It still seems remarkable to me that the rather long series which I examined 

 in 1903 consisted all of rather dull coloured specimens, and that most of them 

 had rather strong bills. Nevertheless it seems probable that the majority of 

 the Crossbills which were so common in 1897 and other 3'ear3 came from the 

 continent, that they only nest in England in small numbers and irregularly, and 

 it is certain that equally dull-coloured and thick-billed specimens are also 

 common on the continent of Europe. I therefore now consider L. c. anglica to be 

 a synonym of curvirostra, while, on the other hand, L. c. scotica is an excellent 

 form, which nests regularly in Scotland, and apparently nowhere else. 



214. Pyrrhula owstoni Rothsch. & Hart. = Pyrrhula nipalerisis owstoni. 



Pyrrhula owstoni Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 9 (1907 — ^Mt. Arizan, Formosa). 



Type : 3 ad., Mt. Arizan, Formosa, 4. xii. 1907. Collected by Alan Owston's 

 Japanese collectors. (Possibly the date is not correct, being a translation from 

 the original Japanese label.) 



In spite of the striking differences of the adult male, I now believe that 

 P. owstoni should be considered as a subspecies of nipalensis, and that Pyrrhula 

 uchidai Kuroda, Annot. Zool. Japon, ix. p. 295, 1917, described from Shishaban, 

 Ako district, Formosa, is the immature P. nipalensis owstoni. The plumage 

 described under the latter name had been described by us in Bull. B. O. Club, 

 xxi. p. 10, as the young of owstoni, but the white streak on the central tail-feathers 

 was not mentioned, probably because at the time we thought it was albinistic. 

 The bird which we took and take now to be an immature owstoni differs from 

 the adult nipalensis only in having a darker, more ashy brown upperside and 

 throat and chest, and a white shaft-streak on the central rectrices, and it agrees 

 well with Kuroda 's very good description. The white on the central rectrices 



