— 405 — 



Distinguishuig char aciers. — Under-parts brighter, strongly 

 washed with vellow, particularlv on the raiddle of the belly. Upper- 

 parts more olive, with less of a rusty-brown tinge. 



Observation. — I hâve not seen examples of ^. /. pallida from 

 Gargues Mt. or of ^. /. saturata (from Kenia) which were both 

 described bv Mearns (Smithson. Inst. Mise. Coll., LXI, n° 25, 

 iqi4, pp. 5-61, from British East Africa. They are more than 

 likelv svnonvms of the above. 



Andropadus gracilis? ansorgei. 



Andropadus ansorgei Hartert, Bull. B. O. C, XXI, 1907, 

 p. 10. — Type-localitv : Degama, S. Nigeria. 



The onlv spécimen in the British Muséum of what 1 take to be 

 Ansorge's Slender Green Bulbul was shot by Mr P. A. Talbot at 

 Ndebbji in Southern Nigeria, and has formerly been referred to 

 tvpical A. gracilis gracilis. 



Dr Hartert described the Southern Nigérian race from Degama 

 on the Niger Delta and has eight spécimens from that place and 

 from Gregani, also in Southern Nigeria. Mr Talbot's spécimen 

 is a vèrv brown bird, which does not agrée with A. g. gracilis nor 

 does it conform to Hartert's description of .4. ansorgei. It is 

 a poor skin and I am not bv anv means satisfied with the indenti- 

 fication. 



It mav after ail be an example of the tvpical bird. I cannot 

 distinguish spécimens from Sierra Leone, Libéria and the Gold 

 Coast from A. gracilis gracilis. 



I consider A. ansorgei to be a race of A. gracilis. 



A. minor Bocage, described from Massabe on the Loango 

 coast, is obviously svnonvmous with A. gracilis gracilis. 



Andropadus gracilis, though obviously closely allied to 

 A. ciirvirostris, cannot be considered a subspecies of that form as 

 the two species inhabit much the same countrv. Ogilvie-Grant, in 

 Trans. Zool. Soc, XIX, 19 10, p. 385 has alreadv pointed out the 



