1 91 8.] the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 671 



6. Sylvietta brachyuha r.Eucopsis. 



Sylviella leucopsis Reichw. Orn, Central!). 1879, p. 114: 

 Tana river, B.E.A. 



Sylvietta brachyiira tavetensis Mearns, Smithson. Misc. 

 Coll. Ixi. 1913, No. 20, p. 5 : Taveta. 



Sylvietta brachyura hilgerti Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1916, p. 99 : 

 Dire Daua. 



This race is at once distinguishable from all others by its 

 white eyebrow and wliite chin. Zedlitz distinguishes the 

 Abyssinian and northern Somali birds by their larger size 

 (J. f. O. 1916, p. 99). We find, Jiowever, there is snch 

 great variation in this res[)ect that we prefer to keep them 

 all together. 



Range. From eastern Eritrea through Somaliland and 

 eastern Abyssinia to Baringo and Kilimanjaro. 



Mearns (Smithson. Misc. Coll. Ixi. 1913, No. 20, p. 5) 

 describes a race from Taveta as S. b. tavetensis. We have 

 specimens from this locality, and cannot distinguish them 

 from S. Somaliland examples. 



As the type-locality of S. b. leucopsis is the Tana river, 

 it would certainly be unlikely to find a different race 

 of a desert species there, with only the Tarn desert in 

 between. 



Sylvietta ansorgei Hartert, Bull. B. O, C. xix. 1907, 

 p. 97 : Huxe, Benguella, of which S. loivei (0. -Grant, 

 Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. 1911, p. 105: S. Paul de Loanda) is 

 undoubtedly a synonym, is a very distinct form with an 

 almost entirely white underside, and may well remain as a 

 distinct species. 



Other described s])ecies or subspecies, the types of which 

 we have not seen, are: — 



Sylviella distingnenda Madarasz, Arch. Zool. i. 1910, 

 p. 177: Ngare-Dowash, west of Victoria Nyanza, pro- 

 bably = S. IV. jacksoiii. 



Sylvietta epipolia Reichw. 0. M. 1910, p. 7: N. Adamaua, 

 is near S. carnapi but smaller, 



