76Q Recently published Oritithola(jical IVorks. 



97. Mearns on Ten new African Birds. 



[Descriptions of Ten new xVfriciin Birds. By Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. Smitlis. Miscell. Collect, vol Ivi. No. 14. Washington, 

 U.S.A., 1911.] 



The following species and subspecies of Birds are described 

 as part of the results of the " Smithsonian African Expe- 

 dition under the Direction of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.'^ 

 We have already noticed Col. Roosevelt's interesting narrative 

 of his expedition (see above, p. 394), and are glad to find 

 that it has been so successful as regards birds, although its 

 principal object, -sve believe, was to obtain specimens of the 

 larger Mammals of Africa before their approaching extermi- 

 nation. 



The species and subspecies of birds now described as new 

 2LYe FrancoUnus scliuettimaranensis (Kilimanjaro) ; F.s. ka/n- 

 tensis (Athi plains) ; F.s.keniensis (Mt. Kenia) ; Nectai'inia 

 johnstoni idia (\lt. Kenia) ; Cmnyris mediocris leniensis 

 (Mt. Kenia) ; Cyanoinitra changamwensis (Mombasa) ; An- 

 threptes collaris elachior (near jNlombasa) ; Pseudunit/rita 

 arnaudi kapitensis (Kapiti Plains) ; Lagonosticta incerta 

 (Gondokoro, Wliite Nile) ; Sporopipes frontalis ab//ssiuicus 

 (Abyssinia). 



We think that it would have been better to have sent 

 Dr. Mearns to the Jiritish Museum to examine the specimens 

 there before describing these supposed novelties. 



98. Mearns on Fifteen new African Birds. 



[Descriptions of Fifteen new African Birds. By Edgar A. Mearns, 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Smiths. Miscell. Collect, vol. hi. No. 20. Washington, 

 U.S.A., 1911.] 



Ten of the forms described in the present paper are pro- 

 ducts of Col. Roosevelt's expedition to East Africa. The 

 species and subspecies now described are Pternistes leuco- 

 scepus keniensis ; P. I. kilimensis ; Francolinus grisescens 

 (Uganda); F.granti delutescens (Kenia); F. schiietti zappeyi 

 (East coast of Lake Victoria) ; Ptilopachus fuscus keniensis 

 (Kenia); Turnix sylvatica alleni (Kenia); Xanthoplnlus bojerl 

 alleni (coast of B.E.A.); Urceginthus bengalus brunneogularis 

 (N.W. of Kenia) ; Pycnonotus layardi fayi (B.E.xV.); P. I. 



