— 128 — 



on examining the material in the British Museum, separated 4 races 

 of E. longicauda, and established that the range of this race 

 also extends to Mount Elgon. 



Wing, tarsus, 



63—65 mm., 16—16.5 mm. 



Irides dark-brown; bill and legs black. 



TrocJiocercus albonotatus alhonotatus Sharpe. — Rchw. 11. p. 499. 



1 (5 ad. 17. 6. ; 1 e ad. 5. 7. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



Only twice did I see this bird on the eastern slopes of 

 Elgon and both times in small glades in the interior of the for- 

 ests. Although the two specimens brought home originate from 

 the "terra-typica", the original description does not agree with 

 them. For, according to that the lower breast, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts are white. 



In these two, it is true, the lower breast is whitish (but 

 strongly shot), but the abdomen and under tail-coverts are grey. 

 Some of the under tail-coverts are white at the tips. 



In the female the chin is not black as in the male, but 

 dark-grey. 



Wing, tarsus, 



cf 67 mm, 17 mm. 



9 65 mm. 17 mm. 



According to Reichenow (op. cit.) the measurements 

 for the wing are 59 — 65 mm., for the tarsus 16 mm. 



Irides dark-brown; bill black, the base, or the posterior 

 two-thirds of the lower mandible is yellowish ; legs black. 



Terpsiphone perspicillata suahelica (Rchw.). — Rchw. II. p. 504. 



Ndwa-misyi . . . ki-kamba. 



3 (5(5 ad. 17. 4., 18. 4.; 3 QQ ad. 11. 4., 17. 4.; 1 Q ad 19. 9. Kiambu. - 



1 Q ad. 24. 7. Mount Elgon. 



I place all these 8 specimens under the a'bove race, in 

 spite of a few very small diti'erences, which might perhaps make 

 the designation somewhat doubtful. The majority of these spe- 

 cimens are from the Kiambu forests (in the vicinity of Nairobi) 

 and Lonnberg (Birds Coll. by the Swed. Zool. Exp. to B. E. 

 Afr. 1911, p. 85 — 87) has named specimens from these regions 

 T. viridis, which name v. Someren (Ibis, 1916, p. 384) has 

 also given Nairobi specimens. 



Lonnberg (op. cit.) has described in a very thorough 

 manner the different variations in the plumage of the specimens 

 collected by him, and the birds I procured can be referred now 

 to one now to the other type described by him. 



In all the cf specimens there can be discerned a pale blue steely 

 gloss on the upperpart of the breast. All the 9 specimens have 



