Addenda. 



Add to Melaeornis luguhris ugandae (p. 122): f . 



As regards 31. I. ugandae v. S o m e r e n says (op. cit.) 

 among other things that it differs from edoloides (the Senegal 

 form) in being less blue black in colouf and smaller in size. 

 But in Nov. Zool., XXIX, 1922, p. 93 the same writer says 

 "lacking the bluish-black gloss". — The question is then, 

 whether the former description is to be used or the latter. My 

 specimen indeed has a faint blue-black gloss and so if ugandae 

 is a good form — as seems to me to be the case — my specimen 

 must be ugandae. (v. S o m e r e n has also seen my bird and 

 named it so). — The author quoted says that ugandae is as mall 

 bird, but he does not give any measurements (in comparison 

 with other allied forms) to prove this statement. 



Add to Dicrurus adsimilis (p. 145): 



Banner man (op. cit.) has also stated that the generally 

 light quill-lining is a character subject to a certain amount of 

 variation and that freshly moulted quills have a much darker 

 lining than old quills. — Prof. 0. Neumann on the contrary 

 thinks that the true divaricatus from Senegal, differing in the 

 almost whitish lining is well distinct irom the East-African bird 

 which should be called Dicrurus adsimilis fugax Ptrs. 



