916 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voi.. xxvni. 



more grjiN isli. lower parts, with whitish crissuni and under wing- 

 coxerts, and metallic coh)r of the throat hut little if at all extended 

 back over the l)reast, are characters shared by T. ■pe'rsjjlclllata. Two 

 birds in white-backed plumage, from Somali Land, collected by Dr. A. 

 Donaldson Smith, are in the United States National Museum,- and are 

 clearly Teferal)le to TcMtrea mridis, or, if Mr. Neumann's recently pro- 

 posed separation be accepted,"' TeJiitrea mridis ferreti (Guerin), 

 althouoji from this region we might naturally expect T. KiinheUca. 



CRYPTOLOPHA UMBROVIRENS DORCADICHROA ( Reichenow and 



Neumann ). 



f'amarojjtera dorcadichroa Reichenow and Neumann, Ornith. Monatsber., 1895, 

 p. 76 (Mount Kilimanjaro, East Africa). 



Seven specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 0,000, 

 7,000, and 10,000 feet. ''Abundant in the forest zone." 



This fine series appears to establish the validity of Doctor Reichenow's 

 Cin/ptoloplia dorcadichroa., as distinct from C. u. inaclxenziana., a view 

 already expressed by Dr. Sharpe.^ Despite a considerable individual 

 variation these specimens do not agree well w ith either the original 

 description'" or the plate'' of Crypt <)l<>j)ha u. mackenzia/at., particularly 

 on the lower surface, but do agree, as they should from geographical 

 considerations, with the description of O. u. dmxadic/woa,'' ])arring 

 the single unimportant exception that the lesser wing-coverts are like 

 the others, not of the same color as the ])ack. The six adults — males 

 and females — are very uniform on the upper parts, but differ consid- 

 erably below. Most of them have the chin and upper throat dull 

 ochraceous l)utf, mixed to some degree with yellowish; the jugulum 

 rather paler and more grayish; the breast almost like the upper throat; 

 but no two specimens are exactly alike in these respects. One has the 

 whole anterior lower surfacealmost uniformly pale dull grayish ochra- 

 ceous mixed with 3'ellowish; another has the chin and upper throat 

 principally dull yellow with a slight wash of ochraceous buli', the 

 breast and jugulum ochraceous buff mingled with yellow. In some 

 examples the central portion of the abdomen is almost pure white, in 

 others strongly tinged with 3'ellow; there is also a very appreciable 

 variation in the shade of the cinnamon brown on Hanks and sides; 

 while the crissum ranges in different individuals from almost pure pale 

 yellow to light cinnamon color. Thus Cryptolojdia u. dorcadic/iroa 

 differs chiefly from C. u. iraicl'enzianam that the fore parts below aiv 

 as a rule much more yellowish, and the chin with the upper throat dull 



«Journ. f. Ornith., 1905, p. 211. 



''Ibis, 1901, p. 91. 



'Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 153. 



'Hhis, 1901, pi. Ill, fig. 1. 



'Reichenow and Neumann, Ornith. Monatsber., 1895, p. 76. 



