308 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 



fully adult birds, tliere can, I think, be no doubt that they 

 represent a form hitherto unknown. Allied to M. nnclatus 

 (Rupp.),tbey may be at once recognized by having the hinder 

 parts of the checks and sides of the neck pure white, the 

 middle of the throat white tinged with yellow, some of the 

 leathers being tipped with scarlet, and the outer margins of 

 the remiges and rectrices, as well as the tips of the upper 

 tail-coverts, golden yellow, instead of pale whitish yellow 

 (Naples yellow). Iris pale yellow; bill and legs black. 

 Total length about 5'8 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3'1, 

 tail 1*9, tarsus 0"7. 



180. Melanobucco ^quatoriahs. 



Melanubucco <Equatorialis Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. ^lus. xix. 

 p. 19 (1891). 



This bird belongs to the small form; wing3"75, tail 2"9. 



a. S ■ Bilo, Abyssinia, 10 March, 1899. (No. 392.) 



Iris brown : bill pale yellow, tinged with red on lower 

 mandible ; legs black, light at joint. 



181. Trichol.ema melanocephalum. 



Trichol(Ema melanocephalum (Cretzsch.); Shelley, Cat. B. 

 Brit.Mus. xix. p. 30 (1891). 



a. c? • Kassini river, Abyssinia, 19 January, 1899. (No. 

 238.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



182. BaRBATULA .MlNl'TA. 



Barbatula minuta Bonap. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. 

 p. 40 (1891) ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 75 [Somahland]. 



a. ^. Acabsiyi)^ Soinaliland, 17 December, 1898. (No. 

 14.) 



b. ? . Tra, Abyssinia, 7 January, 1899. (No. 132.; 

 Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



183. Barbatula xanthosticta. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 

 Barbatula xanthosticta Weld-Blundell & Lovat, Bull. 



B. 0. C. no. Ixvi. p. xxi (1899). 



o, 6. cJ ? • 'J'chlea, Abyssinia, 8 March, 1899. (Nos. 381, 



382.) [Types nf the species.^ 



