444 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



TRICHOLAEMA MELANOCEPHALUM STIGMATOTHORAX Cabanis 



Tricholaema stiffmatothorax Cabanis, Jouru. f. Ornith. 1878, p. 205: Ndi, 

 Teita district, Kenya Colony. 



Specimens collected: 



Three adult males, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 8-9, 1912. 



One adult female, Hor, latitude 3° 19' N., Kenya Colony, June 

 30, 1912. 



One adult female, Indimumara Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 

 14, 1912. 



One adult male, Endoto Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 20, 1912. 



One adult male, Er-re-re village, Kenya Colony, July 25, 1912. 



One adult female, 24 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony. July 29, 

 1912. 



The birds from Tertale and the one from the Indunumara Moun- 

 tains are darker on the head and throat than the rest of the series or 

 than nine other specimens from Kenya Colony and Tanganyika Ter- 

 ritory, and are somewhat intermediate between this race and the 

 typical form, but nearer the former. When we consider that they 

 come from the more northern part of the range of stigmatothorax. 

 this is not surprising. If these intermediates were geographically 

 progressive in their degree of intermediacy, it might be possible to 

 name the north Kenian bird, but such is not the case. The specimen 

 from Hor is lighter, like practically topotypical stiginatothorax. 

 The size variations are wholly individual as may be seen from the 

 folloAvinir table: 



Sclater -^ lists Tricholaema flavibuccale Reichenow as "probably =^ 

 T. m. stigm.atothoraa:.'^'' Although I have seen nothing but tlie 

 original description of faviJmccale -° and the colored figure given by 

 Richenow,-' and although the species has never been rediscovered 



"6 Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 275. 



2« Orn. Monatsb., 1893, p. 30. 



"" Vog. Afr., Atlas, 1902, pi. 5, fig. 1. 



