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urcuter and iiiodian coverts with terminal spots of ochraceous; chin 

 and upper throat pale bulf with line, irregular streaks of l)lackish; 

 jutiuluiu and breast huii' with coarsely squaniate markings of brownish 

 l>lack; sides of V)reast deep ochraceous, similarly mottled; a few scat- 

 tered blackish squamations on the rest of the lower surface; middle of 

 abdomen pah^ ochraceous or even whitish. 



COSSYPHA CAFFRA lOLiEMA Reichenow. 



Cosf^yplia caffra ioLxma Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsber., 1900, p. 5 (Nyassa Land 

 to Mount Kilimaitijaro). 



Five specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 5,000 and 

 f), 000 feet. '"Conmion in l)ushy places." C'ompared with a series of 

 South African specimens of true Cosaypha eqff'ni^ these bear out the 

 characters claimed by Doctor Reichenow for Co>isyp}ia c. iolcema.,'^ and 

 moreover show it to be an excellent race. 



COSSYPHA HEUGLINI INTERMEDIA (Cabanis). 



Brssoni.itf liilervw'Jid Cabanis, von der Decken's Reisen, III, 1S69, Pt. 1, p. 22, 

 pi. vii (coast of East Africa). 



One adult male from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet, July 22, 

 ISSS. This appears to be typical of the southern race intermedia 

 which, differs from true heugU/i! cliieHy in much smaller size and 

 darker lower surface. 



The genus (hssi/jyha, though conmionly considered to })elong to 

 the Timaliidct^, has been recently placed in the Turdida^ by Doctor 

 Sharpe,'' where, however, b}' reason of its scutellate tarsi it seems not 

 satisfactorily located. 



Family TURDTD.F]. 



MERULA DECKENI (Cabanis). 



Turdus derJcein Cabanis, Journ. f. Ornitli., 1868, p. 412 (type locality not known; 

 probably somewhere in East Africa). 



Three specimens, two adults and one \'oung, from Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro, at 5,000 feet. One of the adults is paler throughout than the 

 other, this particularly conspicuous on abdomen and crissum, and 

 may })e the female, though marked male. The juvenal example, taken 

 August 4, 1S88, is rather more rufescent brown above, especLiilly on 

 the wings, the back w^th .scarcely noticeable darker edgings; darker, 

 more rufescent on the throat and breast; paler on abdomen; and has 

 most of the lower surface spotted or barred with blackish. 



"Ornitli. Monatsber., 1900, p. 5. 



''Hand-List Cen. and Spec. Birds, IV, 1!)();!, p. 1(52. 



