NO. 1111. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— Oli IIRIK H.SER. SB! 



Tarln/iiautc.^ /,(trni.'< piirntx (Lichtenstein).— NortheaHtern and northwestern 

 .M'lica, from Nubia to Senegal and the Kilimanjaro rej^ion. 



Ihrlii/iKnilcs ]>arri(i< mi/ochroiis (Reiehenow). — Eastern Afriea, from ( icrmaii Kast 

 Africa to the Zambesi River. 



Tarhnwmtes parvus brarhypierns (Reiehenow)". — Western Africa, I'rom (ianibia to 

 Damara Land. 



I'lichi/naiik's p'irnis yr<«-ilif< ( Sharpe). — Madagascar. 



MICROPUS MELBA AFRICANUS (Temminck). 



C;/j>sehi!< alp'mus qfrtcanus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 1<S15, p. 270 (southern 

 Africa). 



Two specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro, taken at 5,()0(i and 1(),(M)0 

 feet, respectively. These are darker on the upper parts than examples 

 from Europe and Asia in the United States National Museum, hut that 

 this is, as it seems to be, an additional character separating- MlvropuH 

 III. afrlcanns from true melha^ our series is unfortunatel}' not exten- 

 sive enough to deterniine. 



If the generic term A}>m Sco})oli/' a[)pli('d to the, swifts ot tliis 

 group, he refused as identical with the prior Apon Scopoli.' the name 

 to be used is not (JijpsrJus llliger, '' })ut Mlerojms Wolf,' which latter 

 Doctor Sharpe rejects' apparently because of a supposed earlier 

 Mlcropus Linnaeus. So far as we are aware no such generic term 

 was ever used b}" Linnjeus. 



MICROPUS HORUS (Heuglin). 



CiipMns iijfiuis var. Itorus Heuglin, Ornith. Nordost-Afr., I, 18(i9, p. 147 (Hart- 

 laul), manuscript) (South Africa). 'J 



One adult female from Kahe, south of Mount Kilimanjaro, taken 

 May 3, 1888. 



MICROPUS MYOPTILUS (Salvadori). 



Oypstiiis rnyoptibiti Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XXVI, 1888, p. 228 (Let 

 Marefia, Shoa, Abyssinia). 



A single adult male of this rare species was obtained bv Doctor 

 AbVjott at an altitude of 5,000 feet, on Mount Kilimanjaro, Januar}^ 2, 

 1S90. This apparently is the second known specimen, as well as the 

 first adult bird, the original description having been based on the 

 immature plumage, and, furthermore, greatly extends the known 

 range of the species. It may be described as follows: 



Upper parts dark grayish brown, rather deeper on the inter.scapulum, 



" Tarhoriiis parvus brachi/pterns Reichenow, Vogel Africas, II, 1893, p. 386 (Gambia 

 to Damara Land, western Africa). 



''Introd. Hist. Nat., 1777, p. 483 (type, Hirundo apns Lhmeeus). 



'■Idem, 1777, p. 404 (Crustacea). 



c^Prod. Syst. Mam. et Avium, 1811, p. 229. 



« Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk., I, 1810, {.. 280. 



.f Hand-List Gen. and Spec. Birds, II, 1900, p. 95. 



r/This is not a nonien nnrfum as stated by Reichenow (Vogel Africas, II, 1903, 

 p. 381). 



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