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maries brownish black, with outer webs broadly bordered with the 

 same, or slightly paler, color as the head; outer webs of secondaries 

 washed with the same color as the mantle; tail light cadmium, 

 squarely tipped with black, which runs down the outer web of the 

 terminal two-thirds of the outer feather, and with the central pair of 

 rectrices entirely brownish black ; upper throat with a round black 

 spot enclosing - a white one five millimeters in diameter ; remaining 

 under parts light cadmium; axillars and lining of wings lemon 

 chrome ; inner webs of quills edged with grayish white. In the dry 

 skin the bill is entirely black, the feet and claws grayish brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 150; wing, 

 80; tail, 67; culmen (chord), 13.5; tarsus, 25. 



COSSYPHA NATALENSIS GARGUENSIS, new subspecies 

 Mount Gargues Robin-Chat 



Type-specimen. — Adult female, Cat. No. 217681, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on Mount Gargues (South Creek, altitude 3,600 feet), in 

 north-central British East Africa, September 4, 191 1, by Edmund 

 Heller. (Original number, 297.) 



Characters. — This is an extremely pale form from an isolated 

 range of mountains surrounded by desert plains. 



Description of type and only specimen (adult female). — Head and 

 entire under parts ochraceous-orange ; feathers of crown edged at 

 base with green-blue slate, producing wavy lines ; mantle green-blue 

 slate, mixed with ochraceous-orange in middle of upper back, con- 

 tracted to a point posteriorly; wings grayish black, all the feathers 

 bordered by green-blue slate ; lower rump cadmium yellow ; upper 

 tail-coverts ochraceous-orange ; tail raw sienna, with middle pair 

 of rectrices, entire outer webs of external rectrices, and sub-apical 

 markings on inner webs of intermediate rectrices brownish black ; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts ochraceous-orange. In the dry 

 specimen the bill is brownish black ; feet and claws grayish brown. 



Measurements of type (adult female). — Length of skin, 155; 

 wing, 86; tail, 71 ; culmen (chord), 15 ; tarsus, 28. 



COSSYPHA NATALENSIS INTENSA, new subspecies 

 Intensely-colored Robin-Chat 



Type-specimen. — Adult male; Cat. No. 118105, U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, at Taveta, British East Africa, April 

 26, 1888. 



Characters. — This is a saturated coast form, characterized by in- 

 tensity of coloration. 



