912 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



DIOPTRORNIS FISCHERI Reichenow. 



I)i()/)trorni,s Jiftclieri Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 53 (Mount Mern, 

 Masai Land, German East Africa). 



Two adult females from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,00(,) feet, October 

 18 and November 23, 1885>. "Iris dark brown,"' 



CHLOROPETA NATALENSIS SIMILIS (Richmond). 



CIduropeta t^hnUis Richmond, Auk, XIV, 18U7, p. 16o (Mount Kilimanjaro, 



East Afri(;a). 

 Chloropeta keni/a Sharpe, Bull. Brit. (Jrn. Club, XII, 1901, }>. 35 (Mount Kenia, 



British East Africa). 



Four specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 8.000 and 10,000 feet, 

 June 10 and July 2U, 1888. 



There can be little doubt of the identit}' of Doctor Richmond's 

 (7i/o/'()j)efa ^imilis and Doctor Sharpens Vldoropetd Txeuija^ for the 

 oriuinal specimens of the former ditfer from Vldoro])eta natalen.sis 

 nataleiixls exactly as mentioned for the latter by Doctor Sharpe," as 

 Avell as in some other particidars which were not noted by him. 

 Doctor Sharpe apparently overlooked the description of Chloropeta 

 KnnlllH., and Doctor Reichenow, curiously enoujt^h, appears to have 

 done the same, since this name is not to 1)0 found in his recent treat- 

 ment of the genus,'' From CJtJorojxta natalensis natalensls this 

 northern form 0. tt. shniUs may readily be distinguished by its more 

 greenish (less 3'ellowish), olive-green upper parts, this particularly 

 evident on the back and upper tail-coverts; darker auricular and 

 orbital regions, these being nearly like the crown; more greenish, 

 less bufty yellow of lower surface; more olivaceous thighs, flanks, 

 sides of neck and of bod3\ Mount Kenia and Mount Kilimanjaro 

 seem to be the only localities at \vhich this race of nutalensis has jQt 

 been discovered. 



BATIS SENEGALENSIS ORIENTALIS (Heuglin). 



PlatiiMira orlentdlu Heuglin, Ornith. Nordost-Afr., I, 1S71, p. 449 (Abyssinia). 



One adult female, from Taveta, August 17, 1888. In this example 



the white of the cervix and the upper part of the sides of the neck is 



.strongly tinged with ochraccous, a vergence toward B(if!><stn</<jal(-))sis, 



from which form oi'lentaUs appears to be but subspecitically separa})lc. 



BATIS MIXTA (Shelley). 



Pachiipront )nl.d(i Shelley, Proc. Zool. 80c. Lond., 1889, ]>. 359 (Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro, (),0n0-7,000 feet, East Africa). 



Three adults — two males and a female — from Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 at t^OOO feet, collected June 12, August 11, and August 8, 1888, 



"Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XII, 1901, p. 35. 

 ''Vogel Africas, II, 1903, }>[>. 464-466. 



