30 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 10. N.O 24. 



of robusta, not nuchalis. Wing 67, taii 48,5, culmeii 14, tar- 

 sus 27 mm. 



Another specimen (unfortunately it has löst its label, 

 but most probably it has been coUected at Rutshuru as well) 

 with exactly the same colouration of tbe plumage is much 

 smaller and provided with slenderer tarsi and weaker bill 

 thus typical C. r. nuchalis RcHW. Wing: 55, tail 43, tar- 

 sus 24, culmen 11, r, mm. With this fact before the eyes the 

 words of Reichenow concerning the yiuchalis-iovm are vividly 

 brought to mind: »Ob es sich bei dieser Form vvirklich nm 

 eine besondere Nebenart öder nicht vielmehr um auffallend 

 kleine Weibchen der C. robusta handelt, bleibt festziistelJen.*^ 



174. Crateropiis melaiiops sharpei Rchw. 



cTV' Kabaré 1913; 1 spec. Kasindi Aug. 1913; 2 J*J^ 

 Rutshuru 3oyg. i j i^id., ly^ 1914; l spec. withont label 

 probably from Rutshuru. 



175. Pliyllaiithiis czariiikowi Grant. 



1 c?5 Beni, July— Aug. 1914. Iris »ocre romaine». 



It is only with hesitation I refer this specimen to the 

 species quoted above as it differs from the colourrd figure 

 of the type made by such a good artist as Grönvold and 

 communicated by O. Grant, 2 in having the colour of the 

 back of a decidedly brighter shade of maroon. The bill 

 is also decidedly more yellovv in this specimen and much 

 shorter, the length of the culmen being only 20 mm. The 

 difference in colour may, however, possibly dopend upon 

 that it is freshly moulttd (the moult of the tail feathers is 

 not quite finished). 



176. Neocossyplius rufus arrheiiii n. subsp. (or N. r. 

 gabunensis Neum.?). 



1 $, Beni, July— Aug. 1914. Iris »terre d'ombre». The 

 wbole description of the subspecies N. r. gabunensis com- 



^ Vögel Afrikas III, p. 655. 

 ^ Träns. Zool. Soc, London XIX, 4 Pl. XVII fig. 1. 



