NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 839 



I am unable to discover any characters by which the so-called genera 

 Lehn<ni!t<\^''^ { — Acto<h'oriiai<^') and Heterojyygia'' qm\ be satisfactorily dis- 

 tinguished from each other, and they therefore nuist l)e united. For 

 this combination the first name in nomenclatural precedence is Leimo- 

 /? /'Ms', which is several pages anterior to ^lc'/f(>'(^//yw/// .9/ but it is untenable 

 by reason of lAinoniti^ Dalman,'' a genus of Lepidoptera, and conse- 

 ([iiently should give way to Actodrojtias. 



GALLINAGO MEDIA (Latham). 



Scolopa.r media LATiiAM, (jen. Syn. Siippl., I, 1787, p. 292 (Kent, Pjiigland). 

 tSrolopax major Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1788, p. 661 (England). 



One adult male, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 8,000 feet, November 

 20, 1888. 



The correct name for this species is, as ali'eady has been pointed out,*' 

 (rallmago media (Latham), since this has one year's priority over Scolo- 

 pax viajov Gmelin. 



Family RECURVIROSTKID.E. 



HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS (Linnaeus). 



Clutradrlua hhnunlo^ms Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 10th wL, I, 1758, p. 151 (southern 

 Europe ) . 



One specimen, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1888. It is an immature female with gray head and hind neck. 

 "Iris orange; feet flesh color."" 



Family CURSORIID.E. 



RHINOPTILUS BISIGNATUS (Hartlaub). 



Cursorins bisignalns Haktlaub, Proc Zool. Soc. Lend., 1865, p. 87 (Benguela, 

 southwestern Africa). 



Two adults from Taveta are in the collection. The form described 

 by Doctor Sharpe from Somali Land, Rhinoptihts hidgnatus hartingl/ 

 is apparently an excellent race. An example of the latter in the 

 United States National Museum has, in addition to the characters 

 mentioned in descriptions, the throat and particularly the sides of the 

 head paler, more whitish than in true l)!t<ignatuH. 



« Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, p. 37 (type, Tringa temminckii 

 Leisler). 



''Kaup, idem, p. 55 (type, Trinya munUa Leisler). 



cCoues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 190 (type, Tringa iojmpartn Schlegel= 

 Tringa fuscicoUis Vieillot) . 



f'Kgl. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1816, p. 55. 



^Oberholser, Auk, 1899, p. 179. 



f Rhinoptiius harlingiSHA-RPE, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, III, 1893, p. xiv (Somali Land). 



