NO. Ill], llIliDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 889 



primary coverts; tail g-raduated, about four-fifths the length of wing; 

 feet not reaching to end of tail; tarsus decidedly longer than middle 

 toe and claw; hind toe longer than middle toe; metallic feathers of 

 upper surface not stili'ened or scale-like. 



Species: 



Hetcropmr ucatictmdus (Bocage). 



5. Cinnyricinclus Lessnn.'t 



Bill rather broad, the frontal feathering extending along the upper 

 sides of the nasal fossse to their anterior ends; three primaries sinuate 

 on their outer webs, no notch on inner webs; outermost primary 

 narrow, and not longer than primary coverts; tail emarginate, and 

 less than two-thirds the length of wing; feet falling much short of 

 end of tail, the tarsus and middle toe with claw coml)ined not over 

 two-thirds the length of tail; tarsus not decidedly longer than middle 

 toe and ciaw; hind toe not longer than middle toe; metallic feathers 

 of upper parts and breast stiffened and scale-like. 



Species : 



Clnnyric'mchu Icucogaster leucogaster ((Tinelin). 

 Cimiyricinchis leucognMer verreauxl (Finseli and Hartlau))). 



The subjoined key to these live genera may serve more clearly to 

 exhibit some of their most prominent characteristics: 



A. Outermost (first) primary not longer than ])rimary coverts. 



a. Tarsus not decidedly longei- than middle toe and claw; tail 



emarginate, less than two-thirds the length of wing (Vnm/ricindus 



«/. Tarsus decidedly longer than middle toe and claw; tail nmch 



rounded and more than two-thirds the length of wing Ilefcropsar 



B. Outermost (first) primary longer than primary coverts. 



a. Tail less than two-thirds of wing; feet reaching to about end of tail Spreo 



a' . Tail more than two-thirds of wing; feet not reaching to end of tail. 



h. Tail emarginate Arizclopsdr 



b\ Tail strongly roumled Poncropsar 



ARIZELOPSAR FEMORALIS (Richmond). 



I'Jiulidauges femoral}^ Richmond, Auk, XIV, 1897, p. 160 (Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 East Africa). 



A single adult male, the type of this very distinct species, was taken 

 by Doctor Abl)ott on Mount Kilimanjaro, at 6,000 feet, June 12, 1888. 



AMYDRUS MORIO RUPPELLII (Verreaux). 



,l»*//fZr?f.s'r(fpjDfi////'VEKREAUx,inCh('mi., Encycl. Mcth., X , 185H,p. 16(j (Abyssinia). 

 Two specimens — female and male — from Mount Kilimanjaro, and 

 Mandara's, Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet, respectively. These ])elong 

 without doubt to the well -differentiated subspecies rappellii of north- 

 eastern Africa, which differs from true A. morto in longer wing and 



«Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 272 (type, Turdus leucogaster Gmelin) . 



