DESCRIPTIONS OF EIGHT NEW AFRICAN BULBULS 

 Bv EDGAR A. MEARNS 



ASSOaATE 1\ ZOOLOGY, UNITED STATES NATIONA1 



Four of the forms of African birds here described are from the 

 collection made by the Childs Frick African Expedition, [911 u: 



three are from the Smithsonian African Expedition, [909-10 col- 

 lection, made under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt; and 

 one is from the Paul J. Rainey Expedition, [911-12. 



The names of special tints and shades of colors used in this paper 

 conform to Robert Ridgway's " < olor Standards and I !olor Nomen- 

 clature," issued March [o, [913. All measurements arc in milli- 

 meters. 



PHYLLASTREPHUS STREPITANS FRICKI, new subspecies 



Trick's Bristle-necked Bulbul 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 244836, (J. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on the Tana River, helow Camp No. 4 of the Childs 



Frick .African Expedition, in British Easl Africa. August 17. ioi-\ 

 by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 23716.) 



Characters. — This subspecies is more closely related to I'hylla- 

 strephus strepitans pauper (Sharpe) from Schebeli in western 

 Somaliland than to P. s. strepitans Reichenow from Malindi in ( ler 

 man East Africa. The back, in typical strepitans is -aval brown, 

 in pauper snuff brown, and in fricki drab. In size the three forms 

 are practically alike. 



Description of adult male and female. Upper parts, including 

 forehead, crown, mantle, and wings drab; upper tail-coverts cinna 

 mon-brown ; tail-feathers mummy brown, obscurely cross-banded 

 with darker; wing-quills externally edged with dresden brown ; chesl 

 pale drab-gray; sides. Hanks, and outer aspect of thighs pale ecru 

 drab; throat and abdomen grayish white; crissum and inner aspect 

 of thighs pale drab-gray; axillars. under wing-coverts, and inner 

 border of quills tilleul-buff. In a fresh .specimen the iris was dark, 

 brownish red; bill olivaceous black-, paler below at ba and 



claws plumbeous. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 61, No. 25. 



