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Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus. 



Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus Hartert, Bull. B. O. C, XIX, 

 1907, p. gy. — Type locality : Niger Delta. 



Two spécimens of Ansorge's Siilphur-bearded Bulbul were shot 

 by Robin Kemp at Burutu, S. Nigeria in March and April 1905. 



This is a perfectly good race, apparently confined to Southern 

 Nigeria, which lias been separated by Hartert from C. b. barba- 

 tus on account of its « paler throat; the gular feathers whitish- 



yellow with sulphur-yellow edges and the tail and under 



tail-coverts niove rufescent and less greenish ». Thèse characters 

 are présent in the two spécimens from Burutu. It is represented in 

 the Tring Muséum from Degama and Oguta in the Niger Delta. 



The are only two races of (\ barbatus : 



I. — Criniger barbatus barbatus. 



Trichophorus barbatus Tem. PI. Col. XV, 1821, pi. LXXXVIII. 

 — Type locality : Sierra Leone. 



Ran<^e. — Gambia, Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, Togo- 

 land. 



2. — Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus. 

 Cf. supra. 



Range. — Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria. 



Observation. — I hâve not seen a spécimen from N. Nigeria, 

 Reichw. (Vôg. Afr. , III, p. 384) records a spécimen shot by 

 W. A. Forbes at Shonga, N. Nigeria, under the typical form, but 

 this record was published before the Southern Nigérian race had 

 been separated. The Shonga bird may doubtless be refered to 

 C. b. ansorgeanus. 



