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5. A. coUaris garguensis Mearns. 



Hab. Upper Athi River, Mount Kenia region and Mount 

 Gargues, in British East Africa. 



6. A. collaris ugandae v. Someren. 



Hab. Uganda to Kivu and east to Mount Elgon, south to 

 Highlands of British East Africa. 



7. A. collaris teitensis v. Someren. 



Hab. South Ukambani to Teita and East Kilimanjaro. 



Reichenow makes hypodilus a synonym of zanibesiana 

 (Vog. Afr. HI, p. 444; Vogelf. Mittelafr. Seengeb., 1912, p. 348) 

 and considers (J. f. 0., 1918, p. 96) elachior a "Spielart" and 

 impossible to distinguish from collaris. But Z e d 1 i t z (J. f. 0., 

 1916, p. 72) includes elachior but makes it synonymous with the 

 bird occurring in South Soraalt. Sjostedt (Wiss. Erg. Schw. 

 Zool. Exp. Kilimanjaro-Meru 1905—1906, Stockholm 1910, p. 142) 

 gives his specimens from Kilimanjaro the name of hypodilus. 

 Lonnberg (Birds coll. Sw. Zool. Exp., 1911, p. 117) and v. 

 Someren (Ibis 1916, p. 441) call the Nairobi specimens hypo- 

 dilus, while Mackworth-Praed (Ibis 1917, p. 373) names 

 his birds from Thika (near Nairobi), as well as those from the 

 Tsava River, zamhesiana. The last- mentioned writer, in fact, 

 refers to Ogilvie-G rant's investigations (Ibis 1908, p. 286). 

 Mearns (Smitlison. Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 14, p. 5) also calls 

 specimens from the Kenia district zamhesiana, but 5 years later 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 48, 1915, p. 391), after having 

 further described a new form, he names the Kenia district bird: 

 garguensis. 



Undoubtedly the Mombasa specimens are eomlesiana, as 

 the measurements below will show, but not having seen any 

 specimens of elachior I cannot express any opinion about this form. 

 Judging from the description it seems to me as if Reichenow 

 was right in not considering it a good form, and it would surely 

 be rather remarkable too if in the coast-land two different 

 forms should occur together. 



The specimens before me have the following measurements: 

 Wing: cfcf 49, 50, 51 mm.; 9 45 mm. Tarsus: 14—15 mm. 



Irides dark-brown; bill and legs black. 



M.-Praed (op. cit.) gives 55, 53 mm. as the wing -mea- 

 surements of 2 cfcf (Tsavo River) and 55 mm. as that of a 9 

 (Thika). 



Anthreptes collaris ugandae v. Someren. — Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club, vol. XLI, 1921, p. 113. 



3 (5(5 ad. 18. 5., 5. 6,, 25. 6.; 1 C ad. 7. 7.; Mount Elgon, 6.500 feet. 



This form of A. collaris is a good and distinct one, differ- 

 ing from the others in the characters given under the preceding 



