NO. 1111. IlIRDS FROM MOVNT KILIMAXJARO—OBERHOLSER. 921 



Funiily ( ;AMPP:PHA(II D.l^l 



CAMPEPHAGA FLAVA Vieillot. 



C(i)njn-jili<u/a fiara Vikh.lot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hi.st. Nat., X, I SI 7, p. 4!) (femalf) 



(southern Africa). 

 Oiiiipeplauja nigra Vieii.i-ot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., X, 1817, p. 5U (male) 



(southern Africa). 



Four specimens: three from Tiiveta; and one from Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, at 5,000 feet. A freshly molted female that seems to be 

 immature, taken August 15, 1888, differs from an adult of the same 

 sex in l)eino- a little more g-rayish on the anterior upper parts; rather 

 paler on the sides of the head, particularly the auriculars; in having 

 the black barring of scapulars, lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts obsolescent (not simply obscured b}" the ])rown tips of the 

 feathers), the upper surface consequently much more luiiform in 

 appearance; the yellow edgings of the wings paler, those of the ter- 

 tials whitish; the upper throat almost immaculate; the lower throat 

 and breast with more 3'ellow; the flanks and crissum with a heavier 

 wash of bufl'; the yellow margins of the tail-feathers lighter and 

 duller; the lining of the wings paler yellow. There seems to be little 

 or no difl'erence in size between the sexes. 



Although this species commonly passes as CanijHphagit nigra /'^ the 

 name //rz/v/, based on the female, occurs on the previous page,'^ and 

 should bo used instead. 



Family LANIID.E. 



LANIUS CAUDATUS Cabanis. 



Lanitis c(tudatufi Cab.\ni,s, Journ. f. (Jrnith., 1868, p. 412 (iVIoinbasa, British East 

 Africa). 



Two specimens, both immature. One of these, a female taken June 

 28, 1888, on the plains near Taveta, is in almost completed molt, only 

 a few of the feathers of the juvenal plumage remaining, and these 

 chieflj' on the back. The other example, a male from Lake Ciiala, 

 near Mount Kilimanjaro, August 20, 1888, still has almost all of its 

 juvenal plumage on the upper parts, though nearl}' pure white l)elow. 



The careful examination of a large number of species of Lmiiiis has 

 failed to reveal the presence of an}^ satisfactory characters by which 

 the so-called genera PhoneiM^ Fiscus, Emieoctonai<^ CephalopJwneus, 

 and Otomela can be distinguished. It is true that there are some dif- 

 ferences in the proportions of wing and tail, in the length and breadth 

 of the outermost primary, in the graduation of the tail, and in the 

 number of primaries sinuate on the outer web; but these all so closely 



« Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., X, 1817, p. 50. 

 ''Idem, p. 49. 



