884 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



ODONTOSPIZA CANICEPS (Reichenow). 



Pilil/lii rimice/>i< Reichenow, Ornitli. Centralblatt, 1879, |). 139(Massa, British 

 l<:ast A fricn ) . 



One specimen, an adult t'cmale, from the plains east of Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, Auo-ust 25, 188S. It apparently does not diiier from the 

 adult male. 



QUELEA CARDINALIS (Hartlaub). 



Hyphantiea cardlnalis Hartlaub, Journ. f. Oruith., 1S80, p. 325 (Ladn, ITpper 

 White Nile, British Elquatorial Africa). 



Two adult males, l»otli from Taveta. 



QUELEA SANGUINIROSTRIS ^ETHIOPICA (Sundevall). 



Ploceux .s(iiu/i(liiir<)sfri>^ xar. major {PI[o(:eiiK]uihiopiciis) Sundevall Ofv. k. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. Stockhohn, 1850, p. 12(> (Sennaar, Egyptian Sudan). 



Six specimens, from Taveta and the plains east of Mount Kili- 

 manjaro. At the latter place Doctor Ab])ott foiuid them in ver^^ large 

 flocks, September 23, 1888. The immature male seems to be quite 

 the same as the adult female, except for rather paler upper parts. 



PSEUDONIGRITA CABANISI CABANISI (Fischer and Reichenow). 



Ninrild (■(ilHmixi Fischer and Kefchenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 54 (Pare 

 Mountains, Masai Land, German East Africa). 



One specimen, an adult male, of this rare and interestino- species, 

 from the plaiiLS east of Mount Kilimanjaro, October 3, 1888. "Nest- 

 ing- at the pi'esent time, in colonies of 20 to 30; building a globular, 

 hanging nest." Mr. F. J. Jackson found a colon}" nest l)uilding in 

 March." 



HYPERANTHUS CAPENSIS XANTHOMELAS (Riippell). 



Euj>lecte.iixtmlh())iii'l((>^ Ruppell, Nene Wirb. Faun. Abyss., Vogel, 1835, p. 94 (Tem- 

 ben and Simen, Abyssinia). 



Two specimens, an adult and an innnature male, from the foot of 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, at 3,000 feet. This innnature male closel}^ resem- 

 bles the adult female. 



Doctor Reichenow^ is quite right in separating this .species and 

 IIyper(intJiv>^cap('nt<h (Linnaeus) from Pyroinelana; for the lengthened, 

 rounded tail, which is from two-thirds to three-fourths the length 

 of the wing, is very difl'erent from the truncate tail of Pywmelana, 

 scarcely more than half as long as the wing. 



"Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 292. ^' Vogel Africas, III, 1904, p. 125. 



