670 Col. R. Meinertzhao-en on Birds from [Ibis, 



Most o£ the birds wore obtained between Nairobi and the 

 coast in December and Jannary, thongli two wore obtained 

 at Kisumn on the Victoria Nyanza on 8. i. and 15. i. (both 

 isabellinus) , and another (also isahelliims) at Dar-es-Salaam 

 on the coast o£ Tanoanyika Territory on 25. xi. 



L. c. isahellimis has been recorded by Reichenow (Vog. 

 At'r.) from Bukoba on the Victoria Nyanza and Bagomoyo on 

 the coast of Tanganyika Territory. Lonnberg records one 

 from the northern Guaso Nyero (Kenya Colony) on 14. iii., 

 and Oberholser records one from Kilimanjaro at 5000 feet 

 on 9. xii. 



My East African collection contains 7 adult and 2 imma- 

 ture isabellinus, and 7 adult and 10 immature j)hoenicw'oides. 

 The juvenile birds are very difficult to determine from the 

 young of Lanius collurio, but are never so red on the back. 

 They usually have a slightly redder tail. The young of 

 isabellinus and phocnicuroides are still more difficult, but in 

 most cases, December and January birds are beginning 

 to show a slioht rufous tinoo on the crown in the case of 

 phcenicuroides. 



I am not aware that pha^nicuroides has been previously 

 recorded from south of Somaliland. 



Pycnonotus capensis vallombrosse (Bp.). 



Lvos vaUombrosw Bonaparte, (;omp. Rend. Paris, xlii. 1856, 

 p. 766 : Jaffa. 



Pycnonotus xanthopygos palcestinw Reichw., 1916 : Jaffa. 



Reichenow (Orn. Monats. 1916, p. 181) separated Pales- 

 tine birds from Asia Minor birds, as being greyer on the 

 upper parts, and as being even greyer than reichenowi from 

 southern Arabia. They also differ from typical Asia Minor 

 birds in having the head and throat a purer and deeper black. 

 Under parts greyer, the yellow of the under tail-coverts 

 brighter. Larger than reichenoioi. Type-locality Jaffii. 



Reichenow's name is an absolute synonym of vallombrosa;, 

 both type-localities being identical. 



There is no doubt that in fiesh autumn plumage these 

 differences hold good and the race must be recoanized. In 



