NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 915 



TROCHOCERCUS BIVITTATUS Reichenow. 



I'rochocercKs hirlttalKx Uekhekow, Ornitli. C'entrall>latt, ISTH, ji. lOS (INIiiiiiiini, 

 British Eaist Africa). 



Three specimens of this rare species: one adult male from Taveta, 

 Juh' (>, 1888; and two immature males from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 

 (),()00 feet, June 12 and Aug-ust 8, 1888. 



The immature males may be described as follows: Upper parts 

 Wrownish slate, rather clearer on the upper tail-coverts and the some- 

 w hat crested pileum, the latter with a slio-ht metallic gloss; tail-feathers 

 gi'ayish brown w^th slate-colored outer margins; wdngs fuscous, the 

 (juills with paler outer edg-es, the lesser coverts slate-color, the tertials 

 and the primary covert.s narrowly margined with ochraceoUs, the 

 greater coverts with broad ochraceous tips that form a conspicuous 

 wing-band; sides of head and neck slate-gray, the auriculars rather 

 brownish, the lores, orl^ital ring, and cheeks mixed with white; throat, 

 ))reast, and sides slate g'ray, the last streaked, the t)thers spotted, with 

 white; abdomen and crissum white; inferior wnng-coverts brownish 

 slat(> with some white; axillars whitci 



TCHITREA SUAHELICA (Reichenow). 



Terpsiphoiw pcrnpicUlatn anahcUca Keichenow, Werth. Mittl. Hochl. deutsch 

 Ost-Afr., 1898, p. 275 (East Africa). . 



Five specimens, from Taveta, and Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,000 feet. 

 All are in the chestnut-backed plumage, and two of the males have 

 fully developed long' tail-feathers. Another male is just like these 

 except for a short tail. The two others, one a male, the other not 

 marked for sex, are qidte young, and aside from having short tails, 

 diti'er further in being paler al)OV(\ the head dull slaty with little 

 metallic sheen and this contined to the top; Avings dull ))rown with 

 rufous but no white edgings; lower parts paler, the throat slate color 

 like the breast, the under tail-coverts more strongly rufe.scent; sides 

 of head and necic slat(> color. '* Iris (of older males) brown; feet slaty 

 l)lue; bill light blue, black at tip, light green inside; l)are skin around 

 eyes and at angle of mouth light blue." 



As Mr. Oscar Neumann has aptly intimated," the relationships of 

 TcJutrrd sn((Jielic<i, T. lun'd/x^ and T. jHrxpiciUntd are l)y no means 

 satisfactorih" demonstrated. The first mentioned is apparently a dis- 

 tinct species, as formerly maintained by Neumann." but in many 

 charticters it is intermediate between T. peri<j>ie!Uata and 7. r/ridis^ 

 on the whole scarceh^ nearer one than the other. Its more blackish 

 primaries and primary coverts (both of which have white outer edg- 

 ings), more l)luish head, and possession of a white-backed adult plum- 

 age ]X)intstrongU' its affinity toward T. vlrldw; while the much paler, 



« Journ. f. Ornith., 1900, p. 228. 



