6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 56 



XANTHOPHILUS BOJERI ALLENI, new subspecies 

 Allen's Golden Weaver 



Type-Specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 561 17, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge Massachusetts. Collected on the Miru 

 River, near Mount Kenia, British East Africa, August 13, 1909, by 

 Dr. Glover M. Allen. 



Characters. — Adult male similar to that of XanthopJiilus bojcri 

 hojeri (Finsch and Hartlaub), but larger and slightly darker, with 

 the bill slightly stouter, and having the upper contour more convex ; 

 the upper parts are less yellow because more heavily washed with 

 olive-green ; the wings and tail are darker above and below ; the 

 head and under parts are distinguishable from those of bojcri only 

 by a slight intensification of the orange and yellow colors. 



Female with upper parts darker, more greenish gray, without 

 warm brown tints. 



Measurements of type {adult male). — Wing, 79 mm.; tail, 59; 

 culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 22.5. 



Average measurements of three adult male topotypes. — Wing, 

 78.7 mm. ; tail, 59; culmen (chord), 16. i ; tarsus, 22.5. 

 . Measurements of adidt female topotype (Cat. No. 561 18, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool). — Wing, 69 mm.; tail, 52; culmen (chord), 15.2; 

 tarsus, 20.2. 



Measurements of Xanthophilns bojcri bojcri. — Average of nine 

 adult males from Changamwe and Mombasa, on the coast of British 

 East Africa: Wing, 72.3 mm.; tail, 54; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 

 21. 1. Average of three adult females (same localities) : Wing, 

 65.9 mm. ; tail, 51 ; culmen (chord), 15.2 ; tarsus, 20.2. 



Material.- — Five specimens from N'Guaso Nyiro and the ]\Iiru 

 Rivers. 



URiEGINTHUS BENGALUS BRUNNEIGULARIS, new subspecies 



Brown-chinned Ruby-cheeked Cordon-bleu 



Type-Specimen. — Adult female. Cat. No. 215922, U. S. N. M. 

 Collected at Wambugu, 5500 feet, British East Africa, October 23, 

 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 17309. 



Characters. — Similar to Urceginthus bengahts schoensis Neumann, 

 but averaging slightly smaller ; the female has the side of head and 

 chin brown instead of blue, though there may be a trace of blue next 

 to the mandible. 



