from Witu, British East Africa. 135 



9. Urobrachya nigronotata. 



Urobrachya phoenicea (Heugl.^ pt.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xiii. p. 235 (1890). 



Urobrachya nigronotata Sliarpe, Bull. B. O. Club^ vii. 

 p. vii (1897). 

 No. 3, 6 ad. Witu, June 13, 1891. 



[There seems to me to be some confusion about tlie species 

 of Urobrachya, and the differences between them are not set 

 forth in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' so plainly as they might 

 have been. 



U. axillaris and U. hildebrandti (Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. 

 pp. 224, 225), if, indeed, the latter subspecies be really dis- 

 tinct, have the outer greater coverts, as well as the inner 

 ones, black, with a narrow edging of cinnamon, whereas in 

 U. 2)hoenicea and. U. traversi (which seems to me to be very 

 doubtfully distinct from U. phcenicea) the outer greater 

 coverts are entirely cinnamon. The bird, from Witu has the 

 outer greater coverts cinnamon, but with broad black terminal 

 spots. It would be supposed that Shelley's U. zanzibarica 

 (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 586) would be of this race, but on com- 

 paring the type specimen I find that it is not to be distin- 

 guished from U. phcenicea, though the Museum contains 

 an example of U. nigronotata from Mombasa ( Wakefield) and 

 another from Lamu {Kirk). — R. B. S.] 



10. Pyromelana flammiceps. 



Pyromelana flammiceps (Swains.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xiii. p. 228 (1890) ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. 



p. 190, fig. 86 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 25 (1896). 



No. 15, d ad. Witu, May 10, 1891.— Iris brown ; bill 

 black ; legs dark flesh- colour. 



No. 35, 6 ad. Witu, May 21, 1891. 



No. 36, ? ad. Witu, May 22, 1891.— Iris brown ; bill 

 dusky brown, lower mandible paler ; legs pale shrimp- 

 brown. 



11. Sycobrotus kersteni. 



Sycobrotus kersteni Fiusch & Hartl, ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 423 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 37 

 (1896). 



