288 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



Range. British East Africa and Uganda : Kikuyu and 

 Mt. Kenia to Mt. Elgon and Semliki Valley. 



A specimen in the Boyd Alexander collection, taken 

 at Molegbvve between Banzyville and the Setema Rapids 

 on the Ubanghi River, French Congo, on the 11th of 

 December^ 1905, agrees perfectly both with specimens of 

 I. b. bollei and /. b.jacksoni, so that I am unable to decide 

 to which it belongs, though it should perhaps be referred to 

 /. b. bollei. 



(3) Bill black, wings and tail spotted. 



IrRISOR SOMALIEXSIS. 



Irrisor somaliensis O. -Grant, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xii. 1901, 

 p. 38 : Fer Libah, Somaliland. 



Adult. Bill always black, sometimes reddish at base of 

 lower mandible, rather more curved and narrower than 

 Irrisor erythrorhynchus. Above and below, including wings 

 and upper side of tail, dark steel-blue washed with purplish, 

 top of head dark steel-blue spangled with copper and 

 greenisli, throat dark bronze-green, front of neck coppery 

 bronze and steel-blue; wing- and tail-s|)ots large: tail 

 longisli, about 9 inches; inside of wings bright steel-blue. 



Young. Rather duller than adults. Never any trace of 

 metallic green on mantle or scapulars as in the young 

 birds of /, e. niloticus. 



Range. British Somaliland, south through Jubaland to the 

 Tana River. 



This is one more instance shoAving that Somaliland birds 

 extend into Jubalai;d, and that the dividing line appears to 

 be somewhere around the Tana River and Lorian Swamp. 



The three other names to deal with are : — Irrl'<or blythii 

 Heugl. (J. f. O. 1867, p. 202 : Somaliland), which is a 

 nomen nudum ana may be a misspelling for " bollei,"" 

 though t!ie locality given does not support this, Irrisor 

 tlieophilti Heugl. (Orn. N.O.-Afr. vol. i. 1869, p. 220), 

 which 1 do not think is an Irrisor at all ; and Irrisor sharpci 

 of Emin Pasha's Journal [cf. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 597), also a 

 nomen nudum and probably a misspelling for "Jacksoni." 



