802 I'liOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TURTUR CAPICOLA TROPICUS Reichenow. 



Tiirtur rdjvcola iropicd Kkicmenow, Ornitli. M()n;itsl)er., 1902, }>. L'W (East Africa). 



An exjunple from Monil)asa, recorded b}' Doctor Holland as Tnrtur 

 (■((/ilcola diiiiKirciisl.s,^'' aoTce.s with birds from the Kilimanjaro region 

 in typically exhibitino- the characters of Tnrtur c. trojyleii.s. 



CHALCOPELIA CHALCOSPILA ACANTHINA Oberholser. 



Chalcopelid clMlcospild lu-itntliina OnEKiioLhiKK, Vvoc. \J. >S. Nat. Mu8., XX\'III, 

 1905, ji. 845 (Mount Kilimanjaro, ( n'rmau East Africa). 



A specimem from Mombasa'' is typical of the recently described 

 northeastern race ClxOcopcJia ch(tlcox_i>ila aaintluna^ agreeing per- 

 fectly with the type from Mount Kilimanjaro. 



Family FICIDiE. 



CAMPETHERA ABINGONI MOMBASSICA ( Fischer and Reichenow). 



I'icns {('tiiiqiothcra) iiioiiilnisslru.'t Fisciikk and Reichenow, Jouni. f. Ornitli., 

 1884, p. 2()2 (^Mombasa, British East Africa). 



An adult male from Mombasa exhil)its the characters of this sub- 

 species and shows it to be one of the most distinct of the races of 

 Cdinpethera (il>liuj<>n I. 



The four forms, cliryxnra^ aljuujonl, stiahdlca^ and ntoinhai^slca, 

 have been considered by Doctor Reichenow subspecies of Cmnjpetliera 

 chryHura.!^ but as C. ahhujoni'^ was the earliest of these races to be 

 described it should furidsh the s})ecitic term, and the birds be called 



Campetliera ahingoni abingonl (Smith). 



Campethera ahmgoni cJwyKura (S\Aainson). 



Campethera ahingoni sudhellca (Reichenow). 



Cam2>ethera ahingoni inoinl)assica (Fischer and Reichenow). 



CAMPETHERA NUBICA PALLIDA (Reichenow). 



J>en<lruiiiiig tiuhicus var. jia/lida Rkicmenow, Vo<:c1 Afrikas, 11, 190;^, p. 179 

 (Mpapna, (Ternuin East Africa; and Barawa, Italian Somali Land). 



An adidt male from Mombasa ' diti'ers from Kilimanjaro and Taveta 

 specimens in its paler colors, and agrees with Doctor Reichenow's diag- 

 nosis oi pallida, indicating that this is a distinguishable race. 



"Ann. Carnegie Mus., III., IHOfi, p. 454. 



'' Chalcopdia cJtalcospihi. Holland, Ann. Carnegie ]\Ius., Ill, 1905, ]>. 454. 

 c Dendromus c/trv.s?(ru.s' Swainson, Birds West Afr., II, 1837, p. 158 (Senegal). 

 <l Chrysoptilns ahlmjoni Smith, Rep. Exped. Explor. Cent. Afr., Ajipend., 1836 

 p. 53 (Port Natal). 



<^ Dendromus nubicns Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mns., Ill, 1905, }>. 456. 



