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iiiid noticciiMy i)al('r on tlic forehead, particular!}" the lateral portions, 

 the pileiini, ninip, and upi)ci" tail-coverts with .slightW paler niaryins, 

 produciiijj;' an ohsoletel}' s(iiianiate effect; tail of the same color as the 

 back, and deeply forked, the outer feathers conspicuously narrowed 

 terminally, as in Mivropn^ <'<ijf'<'>\ hut more extensively; wings like the 

 up[)er surface, l)ut the outer webs of the quills darker, the inner ones 

 liohter than the hack: a blackish spot in front of the e\'e; sides of head 

 and neck rather paler than the pileum; chin and upper throat pale gray- 

 ish brown, merging insensibly into the darker color of the surround- 

 ing parts; rest of ventral surface grayish brown, somewhat lighter than 

 that of the upper parts; the feathers of lower abdomen and inferior 

 tail-coverts with ol)Soletely paler tips; under wing coverts grayish 

 brown like the lower parts, but lighter along the edge of the wing. 

 Length of wing. 1^7; outermost tail-feathers, Tl»; middle tail-feathers, 

 4:1; exposed culmen, 5.5; tarsus, <S.5; middle toe, 7.5 mm. 



Family COLllD.E. 



COLIUS LEUCOTIS AFFINIS Shelley. 



ColiuK Inicoiis aiHnix .Shellky, IWit^, 1SS5, p. ol2 (Dar-es-Salaain, (.Teriiian East 

 Africa «)• 



Five specimens: from Taveta; Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet; 

 Maranu. Kilimanjaro; and Kahe, south of Kilimanjaro. "Iris red; 

 feet dark pink, sometimes red." These are apparently tj^pical affinis; 

 they varv nuich in color individually, as do others mentioned by 

 Doctor Reichenow.'' 



UROCOLIUS MACROURUS MACROURUS (Linnaeus). 



Ldriius macronrua LiNN.ia;>s, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. 184 (Senejial, western 



Africa). 

 C'dhis macrournti judclier Nku.mann, Jonrn. f. Ornith., 1!)00, p. 190 (Teita, British 



East Africa). 



One adult male, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, ISep- 

 tember 21, 1888. So far as we can discover it does not differ, except 

 in slightly larger size, from an exam})le taken in Somali Land. 



Mr. Oscar Neumann has recently separated the German and British 

 East Africa bird from that of Abyssinia, under the name Coitus 

 iiKtcroiirtis indcher;'^ at the same time suggesting that the bird from 

 Senegal might be different, and if so, should be called Coitus 

 ■mao'ournx soiegalenxls (Gmelin). The Senegal l)ird, not that from 

 Abyssinia as supposed l)y Mr. Neumann, is, however, the true 

 macrourux.^ for Linuieus' description"' was founded on the ""Coliou 



"Caphiiii Shelley, in letter. cJourn. f. Ornith., 1900, p. 190. 



& Vogel Africas, 11, 19(«, p. 205. ^'Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. l;;4. 



