582 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graut on 



74. POLIOSPIZA REICHARDI. 



Poliospiza reichardi Reich. ; Shelley, iii. p. 229, pi. xxvi. 

 fig. 2 (1902); Erlanger, J. f. O, 1907, p. 28, pi. i. fig. 3. 



Tlie occurrence of ReicharcVs Seed-eater in Kullo extends 

 its known range a long way to the north : a female was 

 procured at Dissa on the 22nd of June. Hitlierto it had 

 heen known to range from Nyasaland to the Kamassia 

 Hills, British East Africa, which lie just north of the 

 Equator. 



Dr. Reichenow described what he believed to be a 

 nearly allied form from Arussi, as Poliospiza erlnngeri 

 [r/. Erlanger, J. f. O. 1907, p. 28, pi. i. figs. 2« & 2h']. 

 After examining these figures, which show a much straighter 

 culmen, a strongly marked white eyebrow-stripe, and regularly 

 streaked throat and breast, I am inclined to believe that the 

 species has been founded on immature examples of P.pallidior 

 Lort PhiUips, which is a subspecies of P. tristriata. Imma- 

 ture examples of the latter agree in every particular with 

 Dr. Reichenow's description of P. erlnngeri. Above will be 

 found the description of a nearly allied form met with by 

 Sir Frederick Jackson on Mount Elgon, and which has 

 hitherto been wrongly referred to P. tristriata. 



75. SeRINUS FLAVIVERTEX. 



Ser'inus flavivertex (Blanf.) ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, 

 p. 354. 



Blanford's Seed-eater is a rare and local species. Most 

 of the specimens in the present collection were procured in 

 the Managasha Forest, but it was also met with in Gofa. 



76. Serinus maculicollis. 



Serimis maculicollis Sharpe ; Ogilvie-Grant & Reid, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 625. 



Shelley [Birds Afr. iii. p. 191 (1902)] has united the 

 present species with <S. dorsostriatus Reich., from Victoria 

 Nyanza ; but the latter bird is easily distinguished by having 

 the belly and under tail-coverts golden-yellow, like the 

 breast, in the fully adult male. The present species has 

 been met with by Sir Frederick Jackson in the Guaso Nyiro 



