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lower breast and abdomen buffy white; the crissum and upper tail- 

 coverts sulphur yellow ; and the sides pale brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Wing, 98 mm.; tail, 88; 

 exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 21.6. 



Material.- — -Twenty-one specimens from western British East 

 Africa. 



Remarks. — This form extends from the Kapiti Plains west to 

 Lake Victoria, in British East Africa. Pycnonotus layardi micrus 

 ranges from the coasts of German and British East Africa west to 

 the Kapiti Plains region; where it intergrades with fayi and also 

 with the form described below. 



PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI PEASEI, new subspecies 



Kitunga Bulbul 



Type-specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 213532, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected at Sir Alfred Pease's Farm, Kitunga, British East Africa, 

 altitude 6500 feet, May 2, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original 

 number, 15656. 



Characters. — Most closely related to Pycnonotus layardi dodsoni 

 Sharpe, from Somaliland, but larger (see subjoined table of com- 

 parative measurements under the following subspecies), with the 

 general coloration darker, in fresh plumage with a slight yellowish 

 wash, absent in dodsoni, to the edges of the feathers of the mantle, 

 this becoming more pronounced upon the rump and upper tail-cov- 

 erts ; edge of wing yellower than in dodsoni; feathers of lower breast 

 more heavily striped centrally with dark brown ; head blacker ; nape 

 appearing less distinctly striped because of the grayish white edging 

 to the feathers. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Wing, 84 mm.; tail, y6; 

 exposed culmen, 14.3 ; tarsus, 20. 



Material. — Ten specimens from the Kapiti Plains region of Brit- 

 ish East Africa. 



Remarks. — This form intergrades, both in size and coloration, 

 with Pycnonotus layardi micrus in the Kapiti Plains region. 



PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI PHJEOCEPHALUS, new subspecies 



Brown-headed Bulbul 



Type-Specimen. — Adult female. Cat. No. 217202, U. S. N. M. 

 Collected at Kikandwa (altitude about 3000 feet), Uganda, Africa, 

 December 24, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 17755. 



