NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSEIl. 893 



reason of its smaller size, differs from P. strepitans^ it is at most only 



a subspecies and should bo called Phyllastj'ephus strej)itans nifescens 

 (Hartlaub)/' which name applies quite certainly to the same bird and 

 is of earlier date. Another synonym is probably P. parvus Fischer 

 and Reichenow.*' 



PHYLLASTREPHUS CERVINIVENTRIS Shelley. 



PhijUostrophus cervinirentris Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 10, pi. ii, fig. 1 (Zomba and 

 Tschiromo, Nyassa Land, British Central Africa). 



One adult female, from Taveta, taken August 14, 1888. 



PHYLLASTREPHUS PLACIDUS (Shelley). 



Xenocichla placida Shelley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, }>. 363 (Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, East Africa). 



Five adults, from Taveta, and from Mount Kilimanjaro at 6,000 

 feet; taken in April, May, and August, 1888. These exhibit little 

 individual color variation; the females are considerably smaller than 

 the males, but appear to be otherwise identical. 



Family TIMALIID.E. 



ARGYA SATURATA Sharpe. 



Arcpjd. saturatn Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 488 (Zanzibar, East 

 Africa). 



Two specimens — male and female — from Taveta, September 11, 

 1888. ""Bill and feet white; iris yellowish white."" 



COSSYPHA NATALENSIS Smith. 



Cossyjjha natalensis Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., 1840, pi. lx, (Port Natal [Durban], 

 Natal, South Africa). 



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

 the Useri River. The three in adult plumage vary but slightly 

 except in the amount of fulvous on the back and of })lackish cross 

 lines on the pileum, though one has ochraceous tips to the tertials and 

 some of the wing coverts, evidently retained from the juvenal plum- 

 age. "Bill black; iris brown; feet dark brown." The two young 

 birds, taken respectively October 5, 1888, and December 7, 1889, are 

 in a pUimage apparently undescribed and ditier from the adult as fol- 

 lows: Top and sides of head and neck brownish l)lack with broad shaft 

 markings of deep ochraceous and tawny; most feathers of rump and 

 upper tail-coverts narrowly tipped with blackish; tertials, scapulars, 



tt Phyllastrephus rufescem Hartlauh, Ornith. Centralblatt, 1882, p. 91 (Central Africa, 

 I'ollected by Emin Bey). 



'>P}u/H(istrephus parvus Fischer and Uciclienow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, \>. '2(i2 

 (Murenhit, near Lake Naivascha, I>ritish East Africa). 

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