— 90 - 



This is the newly assumed plumage. When it has been 

 in use for a time and begins to abrade the olive-green colour on 

 the wings, the tail and the under surface fades, the feathers of 

 the underparts being tipped with brownish white. When the 

 dress has been in longer use the light tips, as a rule, get worn 

 off and the underparts become more uniformly dark-brown. 



Barhatula simplex leucomystax Sharpe. — Rchw. II. p. 146. 



Viridibucco simplex leucomystax. — Oberholser: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 

 XXVIII, 1905, p. 865. - Grant: Ibis, 1915 p. 447. 



3 Qe ad. 23. 5., 27. 7. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



This little Barbet was quite common on the eastern slopes 

 of Elgon, where I saw it in small flocks of 4 or 5 in number 

 in the open spots, overgrown with bushes and low trees. It was 

 seen in the company of B. hilineata and therefore my skinner 

 believed and assured me with certainty that it was only "mtoto", 

 the young, of that bird. 



Wing 52, 54, 54 mm. Tarsus 15 mm. 



Irides darkbrown (almost black); bill blackish; legs dark 

 lead-grey. 



Barhatula hilineata hilineata (Sund.). — Rchw. II. p. 147. 



2 (5(5 ad. 23. 5. Mount Elgon, 6.800 ft. 



The two individuals, which I procured from Elgon, should, 

 it seems to me, be placed under this subspecies. They were 

 both in full dress and the one shot on tbe 23. 5. also had large 

 and swollen testes. 



In respect to the colours of the plumage they are good 

 B. hilineata^ the chin being white and the fore-neck light-grey. 

 The yellowish green edges on the wing- coverts and wing feathers 

 run more into green. 



When compared with type-specimens from Kaffraria (in 

 the Berlin Museum) a very slight difference can be discerned 

 between tbe East African specimens and the South African, the 

 former being more sulphur-yellow, the latter more golden yellow 

 on the outer web of the wings. 



My birds put one in mind of B. kandti Rchw. (Orn. 

 Monatsber., 1903, p. 23) but as this species is probably not a 

 good one but only a synonym of B. jacksoni (which even 

 Reich enow himself is inclined to think J. f. 0., 1918, p. 70) 

 in fixing these Barhatula races I have followed Neumann's 

 revision (J. f. 0., 1907, p. 345—346) and later on compared 

 the races with the specimens in the Berlin Museum. 



The conclusions I then came to are different from Neumann's 

 (op. cit.). 



