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51. Hartert on Birds from Ecuador. 



[Some farther Notes on the Birds of North-west Ecuador. By Ernsl 

 Hartert. Nov. Zool. ix. p. 599.] 



Mr. Hartert continues his notes on the birds obtained by 

 Mr. F. W. Rosenberg's correspondents in North-west Ecuador, 

 which appears to be a very interesting- district. The 

 following species and subspecies are new : — Mitrephanes 

 herlepschi, Rhynchocyclus megacephalus flavotectus, Aulia 

 tertia, Lathria unirufa castaneotincta, and Hylophilus bulu- 

 nensis. A new genus of Tyrannidse (Craspedoprion) is 

 proposed, for Rhynchocyclus tequinoctialis and some allied 

 species with the outer web of the external remex pectinated. 

 The splendid new Pittasoma rufopileatum (Nov. Zool. viii. 

 p. 370) is figured. 



52. Hartert on Birds from British East Africa. 



[On the Birds collected by William Doherty in the Kikuyu Mountains, 

 near Escarpment Station, British East Africa. By Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. xii. p. 620.] 



The author here commences the discussion of a large 

 collection of 3000 specimens made by the late William 

 Doherty when encamped in the " Jumper " forest*, about 

 half a mile from Escarpment Station on the Uganda Railway, 

 between September 1900 and April 1901. The spot is on 

 the eastern side of the " Great Rift Valley/' or " Eurycolpic 

 Fold " (as we are now told that it ought to be called), some 

 8000 feet above the sea-level. 



Mr. Hartert begins with the Laniidse, of which 12 species 

 are represented in the collection. The beautiful new Chloro- 

 phoneus dohertyi (Rothsch. Bull. 13. O. C. xi. p. 52) is 

 figured. It! the so-called Malaconotus blanchoti (p. 623) 

 "agrees perfectly with South-African specimens," its correct 



* This magnificent tree is believed to be Juniperus procera (see Kew 

 Bull. 1899, p. 197 ), which was discovered by Schimper in Abyssinia, and 

 was likewise found by Mr. Lort Phillips in Somaliland. But there are 

 nn specimens of it from British East Africa in the British Museum or the 

 Kiw 1 lerbarium. 



