310 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds collected 



throat &c. streaked are in fully adult plumage, while those 

 with the throat &c. spotted are in immature plumage. 



Barbatula flavisquamata (Verr.). 



Barbatula Jlavisquamata Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 018. 



Barbatula scolopacea consobrina Reich, ii. p. 145 (1902). 



No. 5193. a. cJ . Below Kasongo, Upper Congo, 

 2000 ft., 10th Feb. 



Iris very pale yellow ; bill and feet black. 



This small Barbet from Kasongo is perfectly similar to 

 typical examples of B. flavisquamata from Gaboon and 

 Camaroon. 



The differences between this species and B. stellata (Jard. 

 & Fras.) have already been briefly noticed by Dr. Sharpe [op. 

 cit.). The latter species, found in Fernando Po, is a larger 

 bird and, in addition to its duller plumage, has the fore- 

 head sooty-brown without pale yellow tips to the feathers, 

 and the bill proportionately very much longer and stouter. 

 The culmen measures 0'68-0"72 inch, as compared with 

 056-0'58 in B. jlavisquamata. 



B. consobrina (Reich.) is apparently synonymous Avith 

 B. flavisquamata (Verr.), of which Mr. Carruthers's bird is no 

 doubt a typical example. 



Barbatula extoni Layard. 



Barbatula extoni Reich, ii. p. 150 (1902). 



No. 5126. a. ^. North-west of Lake Tanganyika, 

 4000 ft., 3rd Jan. 



Iris dark hazel ; bill and feet black. 



This specimen differs from typical examples of B. centralis 

 Reich, from Ndussuma, Lake Albert, in having the pale 

 lemon-yellow chin and throat contrasting with the breast, 

 which is washed with ochre, and the inner wing-coverts mar- 

 gined with bright golden-yellow. In both these characters 

 the Tanganyika bird most nearly resembles B. extoni Layard, 

 and though the breast is rather brighter and yellower than in 

 any of the examples in the British Museum, I have, for the 

 present, referred it to that species. B. extoni is known to 

 range from S. Africa northwards to Nyasaland and Angola. 



