482 U.S. XATIOXAL MUSELHM BULLETIN 221 



118111. Adult male. Mount Kilimanjaro (at elev. 6,000 feet), Moshi 

 District, Northern Division, Tanganyika Territory. June 12, 1883. 

 Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 Cinnyricinclus leucogaster friedmanni Bowen 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 82: 166, June 20, 1930. 



247668. Adult male. Near Gardula (lat. 5°35' N., long. 37°27' E.), 

 Ethiopia. Mar. 29, 1912. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original 

 number 20907. Childs Prick African Expedition (1911-1912). 



Genus APLONIS Gould 



Lamprotomis atrifusca Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Om.) : 109, "pi. xxx, fig. 1," 

 1&48. 

 =Aplonis atrifuscus (Peale) . See Mayr, Amer. Mus. Nov. 1166: 6, 1942. 

 15212. Adult (sex not indicated). Samoan Islands, Oceania. 1839. 



Original number 224. U.S. Exploring Expedition (183&-1842). 

 15746. Adult female. Same data as for No. 15212. 



Peale had three specimens, among which both sexes were represented. 

 No. 15209 was sent long ago to the Museum of Comparative Zoolog}', where 

 it is now No. 75738. 

 Lamprotornis ? fusca Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Om.) : 110, "pi. XXX, fig. 2," 

 1848. 

 =Aplonis tahuensis tabuensis (Gmelin) . See Mayr, Amer. Mus. Nov. 



1166: 2, 1942. 

 "14482"=15035. Adult (sex not indicated )=adult male. "Fiji Is- 

 land5"=Tongatabu Island (lat. 21^07' S., long. 175°11' E.), Tonga 

 Islands, Oceania. Original number 225. U.S. Exploring Expedition 

 (1838-1842). 

 Peale based this name upon material from Tongatabu, but referred to it 

 also specimens from the Fiji Islands, with mention of the fact that these were 

 larger and darker. Cassin, who was likewise to combine under one name 

 the birds of Tongatabu and the Fijis, has indicated in his MS. list that there 

 were altogether five skins, and four of them are still preserved in Wash- 

 ington. Three of the four are labeled as from the Fiji Islands, and tvvo of 

 those so labeled are obviously representative of the race vitiensis, and ac- 

 cordingly no longer cotj-pes of fusca (restricted to the population of Tonga- 

 tabu by Mayr, loc. cit.) . 



A third specimen. No. "14482," although said to come from the Fiji 

 Islands, is clearly an example of tahuensis, while the fourth. No. "15035," 

 labeled as from Tongatabu, is as obviously an example of vitiensis. It seems 

 certain that, when the several skins were dismounted, the labels of these two 

 were transposed, so that all data attached to one belong properly to the other. 

 The fifth of the original series, No. 14964, is now in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoolog}', where it is No. 75739. Its label states that it came 



