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Dr. Reichenow (Vog. Afr. 11. pp. 130-133), by following Dr. 
Sharpe’s lead, has confused the synonomy and distribution of 
these two species. 
I doubt if either of the smaller-billed allied forms (U. azil- 
laris and U. phenicea) have been found in Hast Africa between 
10° and 1° S. lat. To the large-billed form, U. zanzibarica, 
certainly belong all Sir John Kirk’s specimens from Pangani, 
Usambara, Melinda and Lamu, also two specimens from 
Mombasa, one a typically coloured bird and the other the type 
of U. hildebrandti, three of Bohndorff’s from Mtoni, one of 
Jackson’s from Witu (type of U. nigronotata), and a specimen 
procured by him at Yonte in Jubaland, “3, ad. 1. 9. 02.” 
All the other specimens I have seen of Mr. Jackson’s 
collecting belong to U. pheenicea, so that I think we may regard 
1° S. lat. as the boundary between U. zanzibarica and U. phe- 
nicea, and to U. zanzibarica I should refer so-called U. phenicea 
from south of 1°S. lat. and the whole of U. phanicea hilde- 
brandti, Reichenow, which include the specimens collected by 
Fischer, Hildebrandt, Kirk, Bohndorff, Bohm, Marwitz and 
Filleborn. 
According to Fischer, the species is known in the Suaheli 
language as the “ Tshongue.” 
Urobrachya pheenicea. 
Coliuspasser phceniceus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 304; 1863, p. 167 
Sobat R. 
Urobrachya phcenicea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 225 (1890 pt.) White 
Nile; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 330 (1896); Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. 
p. 130 (1904 pt.). 
? Urobrachya media, Sharpe, Ibis, 1902, p. 118 W. Ankole. 
Urobrachya pheenicea media, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 132 (1904). 
Urobrachya traversii (non Salvad.), Flower, P. Z. §. 1900, p. 957 Kaka. 
Male in breeding plumage. Similar to U. azillaris in size of bill and 
colouring, with the exception of the primary-coverts and greater wing- 
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