1918.] the Birds of the Anglo-Egijjitiun Sit dan. 457 



The only adult breeding male in the Butlei' collection 

 (one from Mougalla) has the under tail-coverts parti- 

 coloured white on one side and brownish on the other, 

 while the frontal band is fairly well-developed. 



Neither of these distinctions seem to us entirely satisfac- 

 tory, but we propose to retain the subspecies provisionally. 



Des Murs' name petiti is rejected by O.-Grant, as the 

 description apparently applies to two distinct species and 

 cannot be accepted. 



Pyromelana franciscana. 



Pyroinelana franciscana (Isert) ; Shelley, B. A. iv. p. 90 ; 

 Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 318, 1908, p. 218, 1909, p. 77. 



[B. coll.] Gedaref June, Kas. ; 3 Roseires July S pt. 



Sen. ; 3 Khartoum Oct. Nov. ; 1 Jebelein Nov. W N. ; 



2 Gadein Apl., 3 Wau Mch. Apl. E.G. ; 1 Mongalla; 



1 Kajo Kaji Apl. L.E. 

 [C. & L. coll.] 3 Toufikia Jan. U.N. 

 [Chr. coll.] 2 Mt. Baginzi Mch. B G. 



Pyromelana taha ladoensis. 



Pyromelana ladoensis (Reichw.); Shelley, B. A. iv. p. 83; 

 O.-Grant, Ibis, 1902, p. 404. 



Curiously enough there are no examples of this species in 

 these three collections, though Eniin records it as abundant 

 near Lado. 



Mr. Butler informs us that one or two people told him 

 they had seen a yellow and black Pyromelana on the White 

 Nile and in the Lado Enclave, but he never came across it 

 himself, although he kept a special look out for it. 



Pyromelana ansorgei. 



Fyromelana ansorgei Hartert in Ansorge^s Under Afr. 

 Sun, 1899, p. 344: Masindi, Uganda; Shelley, B. A. iv. 

 p. 102. 



Cotiiispasser i/wAiosw^Neum. J. f. O. 1905, p. 348 ; id. Bull, 

 B. O. C. xxiii. 1908, p. 47. 



[Chr. coll.] 1 Meridi Feb., 1 Tembura Apl. E.G. 



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