NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 855 



MEROPS NUBICUS Gmelin. 

 Merojis iinhicus GumA^, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, p. 464 (Nubia). 



One adult iiialo, t'l-om Mombasa, taken January 20, 1890. "Irides 

 red." 



Family BrCEROTID.?*]. 



LOPHOCEROS MELANOLEUCOS SUAHELICUS Neumann. 



Lojihnreroif ini'hoiuleacos Kiiuhe/lcuK Neumann, .Touni. f. Oruitli., 1905, p. 187, 

 (Morogoro, (ierinau East Africa). 



Two specimens, from Taveta, taken, respectively, June 22 and Aug-ust 



16, 1888. 



LOPHOCEROS DECKENI (Cabanis). 



Bneeros {Rln/)ichacero)<) decketii C^abani.s, vou der Dei-ken's Reisen, III, 1869, 

 p. 37, pi. VI (East Africa). 



One specimen, t'l-om tiie plains of Taveta, June 28, 1888. 

 BYCANISTES CRISTATUS (Riippell). 



Buceros crititatm Ruppell, Neue Wirb. Faun. Abyss., Vogel, 1835, p. 3, pi. i, 

 (Goraza, Zana Lake, Denibea, Abyssinia). 



Five specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, Taveta, and Kahe. 

 Family IRRISORID.E. 



IRRISOR ERYTHRORYNCHOS ERYTHRORYNCHOS (Latham). 

 Upupa erytJirorynchos Latham, Ind. Orn., I, 1790, p. 280 (Africa and Asia). 



One immature male, from Taveta, taken February 8, 1889. 



Doctor Reichenow is apparently right in reducing Imsor viridis to 

 a subspecies and restricting its range to extreme southern Africa," for 

 the color of the tail is not a satisfactory character, although the birds 

 from the Cape region are, as he claims,'^' distinguishable by reason of 

 a shorter tail and less extensive white wing markings. 



RHINOPOMASTUS CABANISI (De Filippi). 



Irrisor cabunid De Filippi, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1853, p. 289 (Upper White 

 Nile, British Equatorial Africa). 



One adult male, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, taken 

 October 1, 1888. " Bill orange." 



RHINOPOMASTUS CYANOMELAS SCHALOWI (Neumann). 



Rhinopomastus schalowi Neumann, Journ. f. Ornith., 1900^ p. 221 (Usandawe, 

 German East Africa). 



One adult male, from Taveta, August 14, 1888. 

 « Vogel Africas, II, 1903, p. 340. 



