NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 897 



This is jiMotluM- ooiius fccoiitly roino\'(^d from tlu^ Tiiiiiiliifhv to the 

 Turdida' by Doctor Sharpe, " and apparently with o-ood reason, for its 

 aHinities are thoroughly tiirdine. 



TARSIGER CUCULLATUS Blyth. 



Tarsiger cucuUatiis Blvth, Ibis, 1867, p. 1(> (Gould, nianu.script) ("Africa or 



India;" undoubtedly the former). 

 Tiu-Higcr oriental is Fischer and Reichenow, Journ. f. Oniith., 1H,S4, ]>. 57 (Pan- 



ji'ani, Gerinan East Africa). 



Five specimens, all taken on Mount Kilimanjaro, at from 7, <><)(» to 

 10,000 feet altitude. 



The Tdr.siger cucaJIatu.^ oi Blyth, ^ althoug'h always without ((ues- 

 tion synonymized with T. f<tellatvs^ is quite certainly identical with 

 the northern bird subsequently by Fischer and Reichenow named 

 T<n's!</ei' orlriifalix,^ as clearly shown by Blyth's description, in which 

 tli(^ yellow upper tail-coA^erts are mentioned. 



This o-enus. by reason of its ])ooted tarsi and other turdine charac- 

 teristics, seems more at home in the Turdidte than where usually 

 placed, in the Muscicapidt^. 



Family SYLVIID^E. 



ACROCEPHALUS SCHCENOB^NUS (Linnaeus). 



Motacilla schcenohsenus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 184 (Europe; 



[type locality, Sweden]). 

 Aerocephalus j^hragmitis Autrors. 



One specimen, from Taveta, taken May 1, 1888. '" Extremely fat." 



The name b}' which this species is commonly known — Acrocej)haI'its 



jjhi'aginltts'^' — is much antedated by the Linnanin designation above 



adopted, which, furthermore, rests on a basis quite lirm enouoii to 



warrant its acceptance. 



The determination of the generic name properly applical)le to the 

 present species has led incidentally to an examination of the entire g'roup 

 at present comprised under the name Acr<)<'<'j)haliix^ and the results of 

 this investigation may be brietly outlined here. After segregating- 

 the species belonging to Tatai't\ which seems to be a sutiiciently well 

 characterized genus, though by a number of authors recently merged 

 with Acroceplialns^ those that remain in Acrocei>haluf< should appar- 

 ently be divided into at least three generic groups, though ))v far the 

 greater number of species still are to be ranged unde.r the original 

 name. 



« Hand-List Gen. and Spec. Birds, IV, 1908, p. 173. 



6 Ibis, 1867, p. 16. 



'^ Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 57. 



'/ Sylvia phragmitis Hechsiein, Oru. Tasclu-nh. Dcutschl., ISO."!, p. 186. 



