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and to Taveta, Lake Jipe, and Bura, in southern Teita district, Kenya 

 Colony. 



2. P. c. lonnhergi: The Mount Kenya area (Meru-Tharaka dis- 

 trict). Similar to cermniventris but with the head slightly more 

 cinereous, the back darker olive, the underparts duskier and more 

 rusty, on the middle of the breast. Inasmuch as Lonnberg's imma- 

 ture bird and Mearns's adult both show these characters (which, 

 however, are rather slight), I feel that the race is recognizable, at 

 least until better series are available. Van Someren,^^ judging by 

 analogy with other birds, writes that while he has "not examined a 

 specimen of this race * * * from the localit}'^ it must certainly bo 

 different from the typical bird." He is wrong in saying that the 

 type came from Meru, as that is where Lonnberg's specimen was 

 taken, while the type was collected two days' journey south of there. 



The dimensions of the type are as follows: Wing, 81; tail, 81; 

 culmen (broken) ; tarsus, 22 mm. 



This bulbul appears to be a rather scarce bird all through its range, 

 and practically nothing is known of its habits. 



ARIZELOCICHLA TEPHROLAEMA KIKUYUENSIS (Sharpe) 



Xenocichla kikuyuensis Shaepe, Ibis, 1891, p. 118: Kikuyu. 

 Specimens collected: 2 males, 2 females, Escarpment, 7390 feet, Kenya Colony, 

 September 6-10, 1912. 



I have examined 15 birds from the Kenya Colony and 1 specimen 

 from Ruwenzori and find them alike. It therefore follows that 

 Keichenow's form schitbotzi^ described ^^ from the Rugege Forest 

 near Lake Kivu, is a synonym of kikuyuensis. Gyldenstolpe ^* has 

 examined a more extensive series and has also been unable to dis- 

 tinguish between schubotzi and the present race. 



I have seen no material of typical tejjhrolaema, of hainendae^ or 

 of usambarae.^ and can not add anything to what has been recorded 

 of them. It is rather strange, however, that such widely separated 

 mountains as Elgon, Kenya, and Ruwenzori should be inhabited by 

 the same race, while the Usambara range should have a very distinct 

 form, differing from the others in having the gray of the throat 

 extending on to the breast and upper abdomen and the gray of the 

 crown somewhat washed with greenish. It is also peculiar that this 

 species does not occur on Kilimanjaro at all. So much collecting has 

 now been done on that mountain that it may be taken as established 

 that this bulbul is definitely absent there. 



The four specimens obtained by the Frick expedition are in fresh 

 plumage. Their dimensions are as follows : Males — wing, 84-89 ; tail, 



•2 Nov. Zool., VOL 29, p. 185, 1922. 



»« Orn. Monatsb., vol. 16, p. 47, 1908. 



"Kongl. Svenska VLt.-Akad. HandL, 1924, p. 182. 



