NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOVNT KILTMAXJARn—OnERIIOLSFJi. 8(')f) 



SMILORHIS KILIMENSIS Shelley. 



Sinilorhis /■ilimnisis Sjielij-:y, Ibis, l8S!t, p. 477 ( Kilinuiiijan. (ii.-trict, (■ast..ni 

 Africa). 



Three .specimens: one from Tavetii, Augu.st 14. iS8.s, the two othei-s 

 without date. One of the.se is evidently immature, and lias the rum)) 

 chietiy brownish ])kck with an admixture of white; but the i-ido-e likt- 

 crest on the base of the cuhncn is fairly well developed. 



VIRIDIBUCCO," new genus. 



Chars, gen. — Similar to Xi/IoIhuto {Bai'l>(ituhi of authors), but l)ill 

 smaller, weaker, le.s.s turgid, the culmen perfectly straiuht instead of 

 decidedly curved, and rounded, with scarcely a perceptible rid^-e; no 

 naked space surrounding- the eye; secondaries not so long, falling 

 short of the primary tips by almost the length of the exposed culmen. 



Type. — Barhatula leucomyi^tax Sharpe. 



The type of this new genus has been usually included among the 

 forms of Xylohucro., Init, as will be readily seen ])\ the above diagnosis, 

 it is quite out of place in such company. Captain Shelley referred it 

 to Staetolmiia Marshall,'' but it differs radically from the members of 

 that group, as follows: Bill smaller, weaker, much less turgid, 

 the culmen straight; rictal and frontal bristles numerous and well 

 developed; secondaries shorter; length of first toe less than half the 

 fourth. Apparently the only other congeneric species is Barha- 

 tula simplex Fischer and Reichenow.'' This group will therefore 

 comprise Yiridihuceo leucomystax (Sharpe) and Viridibuceo .simjylex 

 (Fi.scherand Reichenow). 



Several changes appear to be necessary in Doctor Reichenow's recent 

 arrangement^^ of the species belonging to the current genera Barhatula., 

 Smilorh/'s, and Stactolxtna. Dr. C. W. Richmond has called my atten- 

 tion to the fact that the name Barhatula Lesson ' is preoccupied in 

 ichthyology by Barhatula Linck;-^ and it must therefore be rejected 

 in favor of Xylohucco Bonaparte,^ since Xylohueco scolopaceti.s Bona- 

 parte, the type of the last, is strictly congeneric with Buceo erythrc- 

 notus CXivier, the type of Barhatula Lesson. Doctor Reichenow's 

 Lignohucco/' based on X. scolopaceus., is of course s3nion3-mous. The 

 same author has attempted* to separate Barhatula dtichailkd Cassin 



« Viridis + bucco. 



b Birds of Africa, I, 1896, p. 129. 



'■Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 180 (Pangani, (iennaii East Africa). 



dYogel Africas, II, 1903, pp. 139-15:1 



''Compl. Buffon, IX, 1837, p. 292. 



/Mag. Neiiste Phys. u. Nat., VI (3), 1790, j). ;«. 



?/Consp. Avium, I, 1850, ]). 141. 



^ Journ. f. Ornith., 1887, p. 299. 



i Vogel Africas, II, 1903, p).. 142-143. 



