NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 843 



The genus Streptopelia seems not to be sufficiently distinct for rec- 

 ognition, since aside from slight color distinctions it has no stable 

 characters that we can disco\er. 



STIGMATOPELIA SENEGALENSIS iEQUATORIALIS i Erianger). 



TurtursemgalensisssqualorialisERhAsaER, Journ. f. Ornitli., 1905, 117 (Menaballa, 

 southern Abyssinia). 



Three specimens, from Taveta. and the Useri River, Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro. These are all females, and are somewhat smaller than the male 

 of the species, as w^ell as decidedl}' duller in color, this difference 

 greatest on the ])ack and cervix. 



The peculiar bifurcated feathers of the foreneck, and the greater 

 graduation of the tail in this species appear to wiirrant recognition of 

 the genus StUjma.topelhi. 



TYMPANISTRIA TYMPANISTRIA ( Temminck and Knip). 



Columba tympamMria Temminck and Knip, Pi,s:eons, 1, ISOit, fain, sec, p. 80, 

 pi. XXXVI (southern Africa, near KafUr Land). 



Two specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at o.oou feet. The imma- 

 ture bird differs as follows from the adult: Upper surface of the body 

 more rufescent; forehead grayish, slightly tinged with tawri}"; crown 

 washed, the back and rump barred, with rust}'; wing-coverts and sec- 

 ondaries duller, as well as rather paler, with mottlings and some bars 

 of dark brown and tawny, the secondaries with a dark subterminal 

 bar; sides of the head shaded with ashy and brownish; anterior lower 

 parts more or less barred with dark l)rown and ochraceous; lower tail- 

 coverts with tips and sometimes bars of tawny. 



CENA CAPENSIS ANONYMA, new subspecies. 



Chai's siihsp. — Similar to (Ena c((j)trt,'<i.s e((jjens/'s\ but all the upper 

 parts paler, decidedly more grayish, the whitish band (between the 

 two blackish ones) on the rump less tinged with ochraceous; white on 

 outer web of outermost tail feather not subterminally interrupted by 

 black, but continuous; inferior wing-coverts lighter chestnut. 



Description.— Ty-g^, adult male. Cat. No. 117868, U.S.N. M.; plains 

 east of Mount Kilimanjaro, December 11, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Upper surface brownish gray, paler anteriorl}^, becoming pearl gray 

 on the fore part of the crown; rump crossed by two blackish bands 

 inclosing a rather wider one of grayish W'hite washed with bufl'y; 

 longest upper tail-coverts with broad blackish tips; tail black beneath; 

 middle pair of rectrices brownish slate color above; the next two pairs 

 slate color, with broad blackish terminal portions; remaining feathers 

 slate color, with a subterminal band of black, the outermost pair with 

 external webs largel}' white; wings chestnut, the primaiy coverts 

 margined exteriorly and tipped with blackish, the quills with fuscous; 



