from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 155 



111. Sylviella brachyura. 



Sylvietta brachyura Lafr. llev. Zool. 1839, p. 258 [Sene- 

 gambia^] ; Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Voy. en Abyss., Zool. 

 p. 89 (1845). 



Sylvietta brevicauda Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Voy. en 

 Abyss, pi. 6 (1845). 



Oligura brachyptera Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 257 (1850) 

 [Sennaar *] . 



Oligocercus microurus Cab. J. f. O. 1853, p. 109 [part]. 



Oligocercus micrurus Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 141 [part : 

 Sennaar, S. Nnbia, Taka, White Nile, Kordofan]. 



Oligocercus rufescens Hartl. Abb. uat. Ver. Bremen, vii. 

 p. 92 (1880) [Lado] . 



Sylviella micrura Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 154 

 (1883) [part, specimens a, 6, c]. 



a. ^. Maritclii, Abyssinia, 22 March, 1899. (No. 412.) 



Iris light brown; bill dark brown j legs brown. 



In the ' Catalogue of Birds," Troglodgtes micrurus Riipp, 

 and Sylvietta brachyura Lafr. are united as belonging to one 

 and the same species, but with the material now available we 

 are in a position to point out that this is not the case. The 

 white-eyebrowed, white-throated bird with a shorter, stouter, 

 bill {S. micrura (Riipp.)) is found in Somaliland, Eastern 

 Abyssinia, as far north as Bogos-land, and as far south as 

 Kibaradja and Malindi on the coast of East Africa. 

 S. brachyura Lafr., which has the superciliary stripes and 

 throat uniform rust-colour, and the bill longer and more 

 slender, ranges from Equatorial Africa, through Kordofan, 

 Sennaar, and S. Nubia to the Anseba valley, Bogos-land, 

 and Western Abyssinia. 



It is probably by accident that Laf resnaye gave the locality 

 of this species as Senegambia, for Bonaparte subsequently 

 corrected it to Sennaar. The synonymy of the two species 

 should stand as given above. 



There can be no doubt that S. jacksoni Sharpe, from 

 Kavirondo, is synonymous with S. whytii Shelley from 



* Bonaparte gives the locality as " Senuaar " ; this is no doubt 

 correct. 



