obtained in British East Africa. 639 



N.E. Africa. It follows, therefore, that the bird from Niam- 

 Niam is not P. halius, but requires a new name, which I 

 propose shall be Dendromus liargitti. At the same time 

 Professor Reichenow makes some important identifications 

 respecting Chrysopicus caillaudi of Malherbe. This he con- 

 siders to be identical with D. malherbii, and therefore he 

 proposes the name of Dendromus scriptoricauda for the bird 

 which Hargitt identified as D. caillaudi. 



We have not, apparently, in the Museum a specimen of 

 Dendromus nyansa of Neumann (J. f. O. 1900, p. 204) from 

 Muansa, but the Museum contains three examples of D.fillle- 

 horni Neum. from Nyasaland : these have been identified by 

 Captain Shelley as D. malherbii, but they really belong to the 

 distinct form recently separated by Mr. Oscar Neumann. — 

 R. B. S.] 



344. Dendromus t^eniol^mus. 



Campothera toiniolcema Reichen. & Neum. Orn. MB. 1895, 

 p. 73 (Masailaud and Eldoma Station, Man) ; Hartert, 

 Ansorge's African Sun, p. 335 (1899: Subugo Forest). 



Dendromus taniolcemus Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 205, pi. i. 

 fig. 1; Reichen. Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 172 (1890). 



No. 400. (? ad. Ravine, Oct. 6, 1896. Bill dusky horn- 

 coloured, base of lower mandible horn-blue, tip dusky ; 

 iris dark crimson. Amongst dead pine trees in the shambas. 

 Several seen. 



No. 635. ? ad. Ravine, April 19, 1897. Feet green. 

 Scarce. 



No. 1008. ? ad. Nandi, G500 feet, April 19, 1898. 



345. Dendropicus massaicus. 



De7idropicus yuineensis massaicus Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 206 

 (Ndalalani) . 



Dendropicus cardinalis (part.) Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 295 (1890). 



Nos. 46, 47. c? ? . Kibwezi, March 11, 1892. 



[This is a pale form of D. cardinalis, recalling by its 

 lighter aspect the differences between Dendromus jacksoni 

 and D. nubicus. — R. B. S.] 



