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them very shy, but relates that he winged one individual out of 
a flock, whereupon the others all came. back and he was able to 
secure additional specimens. ‘The winged individual in the 
meantime snapped its bill and bit furiously around it. They 
were by no means common. 
Examples from the following localities in the British 
Museum have been examined :-— 
P. ¢. cristata. Eritrea — Bogosland (Shelley collection) ; 
Abyssinia (Verreaux collection). 
P. c. omoensis. Abyssinia—Moulou River (Pease), Aroussa 
country and Lake Abaya (Zaphiro). 
P. c. melanoptera. Abyssinta—Hubub and Hoosa near 
Harrar (Pease), Bija (Degen); Somaliland—Fer Libah, type 
(Atkinson), Shebeili River (Gillett). 
P. c. twmtermedia. British Hast Africa — Teita, type 
(Hunter). 
Mr. Jackson’s collection contains examples of P. c. 
omoensis from Mangiki and Turquel in the Elgon district 
and the Laikipia foothills in Baringo. 
Prionops vinaceigularis. 
Prionops vinaceigularis, Richmond, Auk, 1897, p. 162 Avlimanjaro ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 533 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv., 
p. 274 (1903). 
Similar in every respect to P. cristata intermedia except that the back 
half of the crown, the sides of the head, ear-coverts, and cheeks are a 
vinous cinnamon instead of grey, the throat is also washed with the same 
colour but a good deal less heavily. ‘ Iris and skin round the eye, yellowish- 
green; feet red.’ Length about 7:75 inches, wing 4:25, tail 3°50, culmen to 
frontal feathers 0:45, tarsus 0°85. Plains east of Kilimanjaro, ?, 6. 10. 88 
(Abbott). 
Through the courtesy of the authorities of the United 
States National Museum I have been able to examine one of 
the co-types of this species, the three known examples of 
