Birds from British East Africa and Uganda. 439 



193. Tricholsema melanocephala stigmatothorax. Bi-own- 

 throated Barbet. 



Tricholcema stigmatothorax Cab. Journ. fur Orn. 1878, 

 p. 205 : Ndi, Taita, cf. p. 240. 



a,h. $ % ad. Kozibiri River, 2400 ft. Jan. 20. 



Total length in flesh : $ 5^ inches ; ? 5^ inches. Wing: 

 $ 68 mm. ; ? 65 ram. 



These two specimens are rather worn, but agree with 

 others in the British Museum collection from the type 

 locality. 



[Irides brown; bill black; legs and toes dark plumbeous. 

 Two or three seea in the stunted bushes.] 



The following races of this Barbet can be recog- 

 nised : — 



Trichol^ma melanocephala melanocephala. 



Pogonias melanocephala Cretz. Atlas in Riipp. Reise nord. 

 Afr., Zool. 1826, p. 41, pi. 28 : Kordofan. 



Of this, Pogonias bifrenatus Herapr. & Ehr. (Symb. Pliys. 

 1828, pi. 8. figs. 1 & 2 : Abyssinia) is a synonym. 



Top of head, ear-coverts, and throat glossy black. 



Range. Egyptian Sudan, Abyssinia, and western Somali- 

 land. 



Trichol^ma melanocephala stigmatothorax. 

 Tricholcema stigmatothorax Cab. op. cit. 

 Top of head, ear-coverts, and throat brown. 

 Range. Northern German East Africa, through British 

 East Africa to Uganda. 



TRICHOLiEMA MELANOCEPHALA BLANDI. 



Tricholcema blandi Lort Fhillipps, Bull. B. O. C. vol. vi. 

 1897, p. xlvii : Goolis Mts., Somaliland. 



Top of head, ear-coverts, and throat brown ; feathers of 

 forehead and throat distinctly tipped with whitish. 



Range. Central and eastern Somaliland. 



I am by no means sure that the following species should 

 not also be considered as a subspecies of T. melanocephala. 



