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have taken the opportunity of reidentifying all the material of all 

 the species and subspecies available to me, some 70 specimens in all. 

 In the following list I have indicated the disposition of synonyms 

 as far as I am able to do so. 



I recognize three species (in eastern Africa) — pallidus^ hafiraicari, 

 and microrhynchus. I have not enough western material to do any- 

 thing with tesswanni^ nigeriae, sylvia^ etc. The first two appear to 

 be races (if valid) of paUidus; while sylvia is very small, and is a 

 brownish bird.* 



The forms of eastern Africa are: 



1. Bradornis microrhynchus: Eritrea, Ethiopia, south Sudan, 

 Somaliland, eastern Uganda, Kenya Colony, and Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory to Mozambique and Rhodesia. This is the species called B. 

 griseus in Sclater's list. Four races are recognizable: 



(a) B. m. microrhynchus: From Mozambique, Nyasaland, and Rhodesia, north 

 through Tanganyika Territory to Kenya Colony, from Magadi Lake to Kisumu 

 and the Uganda border, north to Nairobi, and the Athi River. 



(b) B. m. taruensis: The semiarid thornbush country of the Taru Desert and 

 the Serengeti Plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, south into eastern Tanganyika 

 Territory as far as Dodoma. 



(c) B. m. erlangeri: Northern Kenya Colony (south to the Lekiundu River 

 and the Thraka district and the Luazomela River) north to southern Somali- 

 land, Turkanaland, and southern Shoa (Tertale, Bodessa, and Gidabo River). 



(d) B. m. pumilus: Northern Somaliland, southern Sudan (White Nile), 

 central and northern Ethiopia, and southern Eritrea. 



2. Bradornis pallidus: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Darfur and the White 

 Nile districts of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, west to Nigeria and the 

 Gold Coast, south to South Africa. This species breaks up into 

 six races in eastern Africa: 



(a) B. p. paUidus: The Nile Valley from Kordofan and Sennar west to Darfur, 

 east to Shoa and the Rendile country of Lake Rudolf, but not in southwestern 

 Shoa. 



(b) B. p. bou'dleri: Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, south to the vicinity 

 of Adis Abeba. 



(c) B. p. granti: Southwestern Ethiopia, the southern part of the Upper 

 White Nile (Mongalla, Gondokoro, etc.) to northwestern Uganda, and to Aba 

 in the Uelle district, Belgian Congo. 



(d) B. p. subttlaris: Coastal districts of East Africa from Mombasa to the 

 Tana River. I have no material from Kordofan with which to compare 

 coastal birds, but Rothschild' states that suhalaris Sharpe (type locality, 

 Mombasa) is a synonym of pallidus, which would indicate the identity of the 



« It should be noted, however, that Sassi (Ann. naturh. Mus. Wien, vol. 30, p. 243, 1916) 

 states that sylvia is an Alseonaw and not a Bradornis and that it may even be identical 

 with Alseonaw olixmscens (Cassin). Sclater (Systema avium ^thiopicanim, pt. 2, p. 400, 

 1930) so disposes of the name. 



s Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 33, p. 65, 1913. 



