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with but a slight wash of greenish; lores dull g-rayish white; orbital 

 region dull grayish. 



There seems to be not suliicient reason for merging the genus 

 Eujjrinodes with Apal/'f<, as has been done l)y Doctor Reichenow, " 

 and more recently by Mr. Neumann, ■' iov the relativel}^ much smaller 

 size of the feet in the former is a satisfactory distinction in so far at 

 least as it concerns the species we have examined. 



SYLVIETTA MICRURA (Riippell). 



Troijlodi/fi's vi'irrurns Ruppell, Neue Wirl). Faun. Abyss., Vogel, 1835, p. 109, pi. 

 xLi, fig. 2 (Kordofan, Sennaar, and all Abyssinia). 



One adult female, from the plains of Tav^eta, August 13, 1888. This 

 is true S. 'in/crura, with white chin, cheeks, and superciliary stripe. 



It is probablj' worth while to call attention to the fact that the 

 original and therefore proper spelling of the genus to which this spe- 

 cies l)cl()ngs is Sijliucfta/ not SylrieUa^ as conmionly written, the 

 latter being simpl}' an enuMided form. 



SYLVIETTA WHYTII JACKSONI (Sharpe). 



Siil.iidla jdckxoiii Siiakpk, Bull, l^rit. Orii. Clul), VII, 1.S97, {i. vii (Kaniassia, 

 Britisli East Africa). 



One molting female, from Taveta, July 0, 1SS8. 



Mr. Grant synonymized'' this form with iSylvletta mhi/tU^'' but 

 Doctor Sharpe, with additional material at his disposal, has since 

 asserted its distinctness./ It seems to be larger and darker than S. 

 'whytii,'' and, though closely allied, is doubtless separable as a sub- 

 species, the northern representative of true Sylnietta. whytil from 

 Nyassa Land. 



The measurements of Doctor Abbott's specimen are: Wing, 57; 

 tail, 26; exposed culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 10.5 mm. 



EREMOMELA SCOTOPS Sundevall. 



Ereiiioin.(i(i scotops iivsimvALh, Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fcirh. Storkholm, 1850, p. lO^ 

 ("Caffraria superiore," 25° S. Lat. ). 



One adult, from Kidudwe, 90 miles inland from Zanzibar, December, 

 1887. This agrees perfectly with descriptions of specimens from 



« V()gel Deutsch Ost-Afr., 1894, p. 224. 



'' Journ. f. Ornith., 1900, p. 306. 



<-■ Lafresnaye, Kev. Zool., 1839, p. 258. 



<f Ibis, 1900, p. 155. 



^ Syhklla vlii/tii Hho]]ey, Ibis, 1894, p. 13 (Zomba, Nyassa Land). 



f I])is, 1901, p. 70. 



9 In tlie original desci-iption of Siilciettn irhijtii (Ibis, 1894, p. 13) the length of wing 

 is given as 3.15 inches, which is manifestly an error, i)robably for 2.15, as the wing 

 of SylnelUi rnfexcens, a larger species, is only about 2.50 inches. 



