220 PARISOMA BOEHMI. 



similar to P. phimbeitm (Hartl.) that one may expect to find 

 the intermediate links in Uganda, as there are specimens of 

 P. plumbeum (Hartl.) in the British Museum from Wakkala 

 and Wadelai collected by Emin, and von Heuglin records it 

 from further north towards the Gazal river in the Wau and 

 Bongo district, where he met with them generally in pairs 

 frequenting the forests. 



Parisoma boehmi. 



Parisoma boehmi, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1882, p. 209, pi. 2, fig. 2 Ogogo ; 

 Schalow, J. f. 0. 1883, p. 359; Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 340; id. J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 139 Pare, Matiom; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 75 Serian, 

 Loeru, Wembaere plateau; Emin, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 60 Ugogo ; 

 Eeichen. t. c. p. 162 Mpapwa, Msanga; id. Vog. Deutsch. 0. Afr. 

 p. 215 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 136 (1896) : Elliot, Field 

 Columb. Mus. i. No. 2, p. 48 (1897) Somali; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 74 Somali. 



Adult Male. Above, grey ; some of the frontal feathers white and some 

 of the upper tail-coverts blackish ; tail brownish black with nearly the whole 

 of the outer web and a broad end to the outer feather white; the white is 

 confined on the remainder of the feathers to the ends and decreases towards 

 the centre ones ; wings dark brown with broad white ends to greater and 

 some of the median coverts, and white edges to the quills, broadest on the 

 secondaries ; inner edges of the quills white ; under wing-coverts white with 

 a dusky patch ; sides of head and the throat white mottled with dusky 

 black; a black collar across the crop; breast white shading into cinnamon 

 on the flanks and under tail- coverts. "Bill horny grey with the lower 

 mandible buff; iris yellowish white; tarsi and feet horny grey" (Bohm). 

 Total length 5 - 4 inches, culmen 045, wing 2-5, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. Massai, 

 3 , 13. 4. 83 (Fischer). 



The Black-collared Hill Tit ranges over Eastern Africa 

 from Ugogo into Somaliland. 



The type of the species was discovered by Bohm at Seke 

 in Ugogo, and Emin has also collected specimens in that 



