590 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on Birds 



The four specimens collected by Mr. Jackson are a little 

 smaller than South- African examples, but otherwise appear 

 to me inseparable. This confirms my identifications in the 

 ' Catalogue ' {I. c.) ; but I am nevertheless somewhat sur- 

 prised at this conclusion, as I recently saw specimens of 

 Reichenow^s new M. aurantiiguJa from Pangani in the Berlin 

 Museum, and they appeared to me to represent a distin- 

 guishable species. 



Fam. Certhiid^. 



69. Salpornis salvadorii, 



Salpomis emini, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 415, pi. 37. 

 Salpornis sahadorii, Bocage; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 37 

 (Tobbo). 

 No. 247. ? ad. Save, Mt. Elgon, 6000 feet, Feb. 11, 1890, 



— Irides brown ; legs fleshy brown. First seen. 

 No. 248. S ad. Save, Feb. 11, 1890.— Bill dusky, pale 

 horn-blue on underside of lower mandible ; irides 

 brown. Both these birds were shot amongst the acacia 

 trees, 

 I must agree with Captain Shelley that Salpornis emini is 

 not to be separated from S. salvadorii. 



Fam. Nectariniid^. 



70. Drepanorhynchus reichenowi. 

 Drepanorhynchus reichenowi, Fischer, Zeitschr. i, p. 338 



(1884; Naiwascha Lake) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 139. 



Nectarinia reichenowi, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 365 

 (Kilimanjaro). 

 No. 27. S ad. Kikuyu, Aug. 28, 1889. 



Compared with Kilimanjaro specimens, Mr. Jackson's 

 bird from Kikuyu appears to be more of a golden-olive colour, 

 and not so fiery metallic; but one of the Kilimanjaro skins 

 seems to be intermediate, so that the species is doubtless the 

 same from both the above-mentioned places. 



71. Nectarinia iENEicuLARis, 

 Nectarinia (Bneigularis, Sharpe, above, p. 444. 

 Nectarinia famosa (nee L.); Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 227. 



