NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 847 



good, di tiering- from acKiifliliKioi East Africa in its larger size, I'ather 

 paler upper parts, and much darker, more pinkish lower surface. 



There seem thus to be tive, forms of Chah'opeila c/udcoHpUa^ as 

 follows: 



Clialcopelia chalcospUa chal.coi^pila (Wa<xl»'r) [=erl(iiigfrl Reichenow). — West 

 Africa from Senegal to Angola. 



Ch<ilcopelia chalcospUa volhnanni Reichenovv." — Daiuara Land. 



Clialcopelia chalcoqyUa caffra Reichenow.'' — Southeastern Africa. 



Clialcopelia chalcospUa acanthina Oberholser. — East and Northeast Africa, except- 

 ing Somali Land. 



Clialcopelia chalcospUa soitialica J'^rlanger. — Somah Land. 



APLOPELIA LARVATA LARVATA ( Temminck and Knip ). 



Columha larrata Temminck and Ivnip, Pigeons, I, fain, sec., LSOit, p. 71, pi. xxxi 

 (Autiniqnoi country, southern Africa). 



Seven specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 5,t)00 and 

 6,000 feet. Those taken June 8-12, 1888, were just completing the 

 molt. A 3' oung bird in the barred plumage bears date of J une 10, 1888. 



These examples are appreciably smaller than typical A. larvata 

 from southern Africa, in this verging toward Aplo2)elia larvata 

 hronzlna^ but they are still nmch too large for the latter. Size, how- 

 ever, seems to be the onl}- particular in which these birds difi'er from 

 true larrata, and this is so slight that the recognition of another sub- 

 species {klliaterixis)'' is apparentl}^ not desirable. The characters 

 given in the original description of kil/niensis'' are probably based on 

 individual variation, for they are not l)orne out by Doctor Abliott's 

 Kilimanjaro specimens. This is also the view taken by Doctor Reich- 

 enow,'' who synonymizes lllimensis with larvata^ and states that 

 South Africa specimens do not diii'er from those taken on Kilimanjaro. 

 Furthermore Doctor Reichenow is apparently right in considering 

 Aplojx'lla jolm.^tonP a synonym of ^4. larvata J Our birds certainly 

 do not exhibit the characters assigned to this supposed form. 



Family CUCULID^F. 



CLAMATOR CAFER ( Lichtenstein.) 



r(tm/w.s cq/e?- LiCHTKNSTEiN, Cat. rer. nat. Hamb., 179.S, p. 14 (Kaffir Land) . 

 Coccystes cqfer Authors. 



One adult male, from Kidudwe, IK) miles' inland from Zanzibar, 

 December, 1887. 



« Journ. f. Ornitli., 1902, p. 134 (Daniara Land). 



ftldem, 1902, p. 134 (Caffraria, southeastern Africa). 



eHaplopelia larvata kilimensis Neumann, Journ. f. Ornith., 1898, p. 289 (Kiboscho, 

 Mount Kilimanjaro). 



f'Vogel Africas, I, 1901, pp. 420-421. 



e Haplopeliajohnstoni Shelley, lh\s, 1893, p. 28, pi. iii (Milanji Plateau, Nyassa 

 Land, British Central Africa). 



/ Vogel Africas, I, 1901, p. 421. 



