1918.] the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 707 



Parisoma b. DisTiNCTA Hartert, Nov. Zool, xxiv. 1917, 

 p. 459: Gerbe, S. Arabia. 



Wing o£ males 68-70, of females 66-68 mm. ; back a little 

 darker brown, not contrasting so strongly with the darker 

 head. 



Distribution. S. Arabia. 



Parisoma b. somaliensis, subsp. n. -X._ 



Wing ^ Qi-Q7, ? 65 mm. Back distinctly greyer than 

 in either of the two other forms. The tail also is much 

 whiter, the outer web of the outer tail-feather almost com- 

 pletely white, while in the Arabian and typical birds the 

 white forms only a narrow line along the outer edge of the 

 outer web. 



Type, a male from Mundara, Somaliland, collected by 

 R. M. Hawker, 9/xi./97. B.M. reg. no. 98/6/13/76. 



Distribution . Somaliland. 



Chloropeta massaica umbriniceps. 



Chloropeta natalensis umbriniceps Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 

 1902, p. 10 : Omo river ; Keichenow V. A. ii. p. 465. 



[Chr. coll ] 1 Meridi Feb. B.G. ; 1 Yei Nov. I.E. 



These birds, though not quite iidult, are undoubtedly 

 identical with birds in the Museum from southern Abyssinia, 

 Uganda, and the highlands of British East Africa. Whether 

 they are really distinct from the true C. massaica Fisch. & 

 Reich w., the type-locality of which is Kilimanjaro, we can- 

 not say as we have no examples from there with which to 

 compare them. 



C. batesi Sharpe (Ibis, 1905, p. 468 : Cameroon) appears 

 to be another member of this group of brown-headed forms, 

 which we prefer to keep apart from the C. natalensis group . 

 (vide Ibis, 1917, p. 385). 



Batis bella chadensis. 



Batis chadensis Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, 

 p. 105 : Lake Chad. 



Batis orientalis (nee Heugl.), Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 341 

 part, 1908, p. 236, 1909, p. 399. 



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