NO. 1469. 



EAST AFRICAN BIRDS— OllElllIOLSER. 



Measurem-^nts are as below: 



811 



There are thus three forms of PomatorJiynrJivH .Senegal vx, whose 

 names and geographical ranges are as follows: 



Poniatorhync/ius Henegalus senegnlus (Linnanis). — Western and 

 northwestern Africa. 



Pomatorhyuchus Senegal us armemis Oberholser. — South Africa 

 and eastern Africa north to the Kilimanjaro region. 



Pomatorhynclius senegalns oriental is Cabanis.^ — Coast region of 

 British East Africa, and probablj^ northward. 



Family NECTARINIID^. 



CINNYRIS OLIVACEA RAGAZZII (Salvadori). 



Eleocerthia ragazzii Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2«, VI (XXVI), 

 1888, p. 247 (Fekerie Ghem forest, Shoa, Abyssinia). 

 Specimens from Mombasa " are identical with those from Kiliman- 

 jaro, and serve even more clearly to emphasize the distinctness of this 

 race. 



Family HIRUNDINID.E. 



HIRUNDO PUELLA ABYSSINICA Guerin. 



Ilirundo abyssinica Guerin, Rev. Zool., 184:3, p. 1322 (Abyssinia). 

 Specimens from Mombasa* are very typical of this eastern sub- 

 species, and agree perfectly with birds from Mount Kilimanjaro. 



Family FRINGILLID.E. 



PASSER SWAINSONI GONGONENSIS (Oustalet). 



PseudostnUhvs gongonensis Oustalet, Le Naturaliste, 1890, p. 274 (Gongoni, near 



Mombasa, British East Africa) . 



This large, pale form replaces true Passer sivainsoni in southern 



Somali Land and in British East Africa, but is quite certainly only 



subspecitically distinct. A specimen in the Doherty collection, from 



Mombasa,' belongs to this race. 



a Chalcomitra obscura ragazzii, Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, ji. 482. 

 f> HInmdo puella Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mns., Ill, 1905, p. 457. 

 (^Passer swainsoni Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, p. 461. 



