804 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family (^ORACIID^. 



EURYSTOMUS AFER SUAHELICUS Neumann. 



F.iiriiMomuK afcr xnaheUicn:^ Neumann, Jonrn. f. Oniitli., IHO'i, ]i. ist; (Tsohara, 

 Tana Kiver, British East Africa). 



Olio of the jMonihasa spocinuMi.s recorded by Doctor Holland" ha.s 

 l)etMi ('xainined. It is apparently typical of the eastern race recent!}' 

 separated b}' Mr. Neumann.'' 



Family MFKOPID.F. 



MEROPS SUPERCILIOSUS SUPERCILIOSUS Linnaeus. 

 Mcropx KupcrciUosns Linn.kus, 8yst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 17(i6, p. 188 (Madagascar). 

 Two specimens from Mombasa are apparently typical 21. KHjtercilio- 

 atfs, and show little or no approach to Merops auperciliosua donaldsoni 

 of Somali Land.'' 



Family PLOCTJD.E. 



AMBLYOSPIZA ALBIFRONS i^THIOPICA Neumann. 



AmhhjoKpizii aethiopivd Nkimann, Ornitli. JMoiiatsber., iltOl', j). it (Oinu River, 

 Malo, Abyssinia). 

 Two specimens from Mombasa examined ])elono- to this race rather 

 than to Ainhhjosjjizd alhifroDK alhlfrons to whicli they have been 

 referred by Doctor Holland.'' 



HYPHANTORNIS AUREOFLAVUS (Smith). 



Ploceas aureojlarns Smith, 111. Zool. 8. Afr., Avos, ISoV), text U) j)l. xxx, tig. 1 

 (Sierra Leone ! [locality erroneous?]). 



Three specimens of this species from TaA'cta, British East Africa, 

 were inadvertently referred liy the i)resent writer' to 7/</^;/u/;^/(>/vu'.s' 

 hojei'i. In addition to other characters, Jfyphantoi'nls aureofiavus may 

 he distiiio-uished fi-om IF. hijcri in lu^arly all plumaofos by the less 

 golden — more greenish — shade of both u])i)er and lower parts. 



Family PYCNONOTID.E. 



PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI MICRUS Oberholser. 



riinumotus Imjardi inicntx Ohekiiolskk, Proc. U. S. Nat. IMus., XXVI 11. l!t().">, 

 p. 891 (Taveta, British East Africa). 



Examples from Mombasa' bear out the characters originally assigned 



to this race. 



d Eurifstonim afer Holland, Ann. Carnegie ]\Ius., Ill, 1905, p. 457. 

 ''Euri/xhmiHx afer siiahelicas Nkimann, Journ. f. Ornith., 1905, p. 18(). 

 <' Merops snperciUo.^iis donahhoni Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. IVIus., XXVII, 1904, 

 p. 737 (Bar Madn, Ganana River, Somali Land). 

 <'Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, p. 460. 

 ^Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 877. 

 fPycnonotus layardi Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, p. 461. 



