2(} Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 



chestnut is much more confined than in this latter race. 

 Flanks and abdomen white. 



Female. Much darker than salax and nearest to alho- 

 fasciata. The chestnut on the under parts is confined to the 

 breast, the abdomen and flanks beino- white. The throat of 

 the female is also darker than in either salaa' or axillaris. 



Wing o£ one male 6S, culmen 15. Hartert (J. £. 0. 1910, 

 p. 176) gives wings as 73 to 82"5 mm. 



Cameroon and the hills of Fernando Po. 



Saxicola torquata axillaris. 



Pratincola axillaris Shellej, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884, 

 p. 556 : Kilimanjaro, 7000 ft. 



Pratincola emmtc Hartlaub, J. f. 0. 1890, p. 1 52 : Ruganda ; 

 also Ankole in S.W. Uganda. Type examined. 



Male. Differs from salax in having black axillaries with 

 very narrow white fringes. Upper tail-coverts pure \Nhite. 

 Tail usually entirely black at its base with perhaps occasion- 

 ally a millimetre or two oi white. The chestnut of the 

 under parts is more confined to the breast than in salax and 

 is merely a chestnut spot below the black throat, which is 

 sometimes so confined as to be almost lacking, thus forming 

 a link between the chestnut-breasted forms and alhofasciata. 

 Rest of under parts pure white. 



Female. As in salax. 



Wing of males 68-73, culmen 14-15 mm. 



Inhabits the whole of Uganda and the Belgian Congo 

 immediately west of Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu, Kenya 

 Colony round Kisumu, Nakuru, Naivasha, Kikuyu, 

 Nairobi, and Kilimanjaro. In the Nandi country (north- 

 east of the Victoria Nyanza) birds appear to approach 

 alhofasciata. 



Saxicola torquata alhofasciata. 



Saxicola alhofasciata Riippell, Syst. Ueb. 1845, p. 39 : 

 Simen Province, Abyssinian highlands. 



Male. Whole upper parts as in axillaris and salax. Upper 

 tail-coverts white. Axillaries entirely black. Tail entirely 

 black, with occasionally a small white spot at the base of the 



