840 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



RHINOPTILUS CHALCOPTERUS (Temminck). 



Cursorias chalcoplerns Tkmmwck, PI. Col., V, 1824, pi. ccxcviii (Senegal). 



One specimen from Taveta, March 25, 1888. "Legs red; iris very 

 dark thrown." 



RHINOPTILUS CINCTUS (Heuglin). 



Uemerodromus ciruius Heuglin, Ibia, 1863, p. ol, pi. i (Gondokoro, White Nile, 

 5° N. Lat, British Equatorial Africa). 



Two specimens, from Taveta, and the plains east of Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, respectively. They apparently do not difler from a Somali 

 Land example. 



Family CEDICNEMID.*:. 



CEDICNEMUS CAPENSIS Lichtenstein. 



Oeclicnemus cupenah Lichtenstein, \'erz. Duubl., 1823, p. 69 (Cape of Good 

 Hope). 



Two examples, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro. One 

 of these, a male, taken July 13, 1889, is much paler than the other 

 and seems to be immature. "Iris (of adult female) yellow." "Coui- 

 mon on the dry plains; almost always seen in pairs." 



Whether or not Doctor Reichenow is correct in his contention that 

 CEdicriemus affinis is inseparable from (Edicneirms capensl^^^' there is 

 no doubt that the specimens collected by Doctor Abbott are strictly 

 referable to the latter. 



Family PTEROCLID^. 



PTEROCLURUS EXUSTUS (Temminck). 



Plerodes exustus Temminck, PI. Col., V, 1825, pis. cccliv, ccclx (Senegal). 



One apparently typical specimen, without data. 



A specimen in the National Museum from Milmil, Somali Land, col- 

 lected July 30, 18U4:, by* Dr. A. Donaldson Smith, sustains the charac- 

 ters of Mr. Hartert's new subspecies, Pteroclurus exustus soraallcus^^ 

 except that it is not smaller than our examples of true exustus. 



PTEROCLES DECORATUS Cabanis. 



Pterodes (/ecoroiws CABANisJJonrn. f. Ornith., 1868, p. 413 (Lake Jipe, German 

 East Africa). 



One adult female, from the [)lains near Mount Kilimanjaro, August 



29, 1888. 



« Vogel Africas, I, 1900, p. 199. 



i> Pterodes exustus sotnulicus a ARTERT, Novit. Zool.,1900, j). 28 (Milmil, Somali Land). 



