NO. nil. BIRD,S FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERllOLSER. 891 



Family PYCNONOTID.E. 



ARIZELOCICHLA" NIGRICEPS (Shelley) 



Ncnnrlclila nigriceps Shelley, Proc Zool. Soc Loud., IHS't, p. :'Ai2 (Mount 



Kilimanjaro, East Africa). 

 Arizelocii'hiti vlgrice]»i Obe-riioi^ser, Smithsou. (iuart.. Ill, 1905, p. 164. 



Eight .speciiin'iis, all from Mount Kiliiiianjaro, at altitudes of 6,<»<X), 

 7,000, and 10,000 feet, collected in April, May, .June, and August, 

 1888. The females are nuich smaller than the males, but in other 

 respects are indistinguishable. 



ARIZELOCICHLA STRIIFACIES (Reichenow and Neumann). 



Xenocicli/a driifacie^ Reichenow and Neuman.v, Ornith. MonatH})er., 1895, p. 74 



(Marangu, Mount Kilimanjaro). 

 Arizeiociclda .sOw'//Vfc*V.v Obekholsek, Hmithsou. Quart., Ill, 1905, p. I(i4. 



One adult female of this rare species was ol)tain(!d by Doctor 

 Abbott at an altitude of 5,000 feet on Mount Kilimanjaro, October 

 16, 1889. It agrees perfectly with Doctor Reichenow's descriptions,* 

 except for the lack of most of the fine white streaking on the chin, 

 this part being instead narrowly barred with whitish. 



PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI MICROS, new subspecies. 



Chhn. suhsp. — Similar to Pyoionotas Jaynrdi layardl^ ))ut very 

 much smaller. 



Description. -^Ty\)(i, adult male. Cat. No. 11T995, U.S.N.M.; Taveta, 

 British P:ast Africa, March 22, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Pileum, 

 chin, and sides of head brownish black; throat, breast, sides of neck, 

 and remainder of upper parts, including wings and tail, fuscous 

 brown, the breast rather lighter, the tail darker, and the feathers 

 nearly everywhere with paler tips which on the breast and outer tail- 

 feathers become whitish; lower breast and abdomen white, the sides 

 and flanks washed with brownish; crissum bright yellow; under wing- 

 coverts brownish white, washed with yellow along the edge of the 

 wing. 



Doctor Sharpe long ago called attention to the diti'erence character- 

 izing the birds of this species found in East Africa,'' but no name 

 appears yet to have been bestowed upon this race. Although practi- 

 cally the same in color, the birds from East Africa exhibit such a 

 wide and apparently quite constant di.screpancy in sizi; from those of 

 the s(nitliern part of the continent that their subspecific separation 

 seems justified. This may be seen from the sul>joined measurements. 



«See 0))erholser, Smithson. Quart., Ill, 1905, p. lO;! 



^'Ornitli. Monatsl)er., 1895, p. 74; Vogel Afrii'as, III, 1904, p. 391. 



tCat. Birds Brit. Muy., VI, 1881, p. 133. 



