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Measurements of type. — Length of skin, 175 mm.; wing, 81; 

 spurious primary, 31 ; tail, S4.5; culmen (chord), 19; tarsus, 23. 



Average measurements of nine adult males. — Wing, Si. 2; tail, 

 84.8; culmen (chord), 18; tarsus, 22.33. 



Average measurements of four adult females. — Wing, 75.25 ; tail, 

 79.75; culmen (chord), 16.88, tarsus, 21.88. 



PHYLLASTREPHUS CERVINIVENTRIS LONNBERGI, new subspecies 

 Lonnberg's Bulbul 



" Phyllastrephus eerviniventris? " Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl., 47, No. 5, 191 1, p. 115 (one day's march south of 

 Meru boma, British East Africa). 



Type-specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 244837, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on the Government Trail, Tharaka District, British East 

 Africa, August 12, 1912, by Edgar A. Mcarns. (Original number, 



23569-) 



Characters. — Most closely related to Phyllastrephus cerviniven- 

 tris cerviniventris Shelley, but with the head more cinereous, the 

 back darker olive, and the under parts more grayish, and more rusty 

 on the middle of the chest and abdomen. 



Description of type (adult male). — Top and sides of head drab- 

 gray; mantle light grayish olive; wings grayish olive; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail cinnamon-brown ; under parts drab-gray, washed 

 with ecru-drab on middle of chest and abdomen, deepening to light 

 cinnamon-drab on crissum ; axillars and lining of wings cinnamon- 

 drab ; inner border of quills edged with drab-gray. In the dry 

 skin the maxilla and tip of mandible are drab, remainder of mandible 

 yellowish white ; tarsi yellowish white ; toes and claws pale brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 165 mm.; 

 wing, 81 ; tail, 81 ; culmen (broken) ; tarsus, 22. 



PHYLLASTREPHUS PLACIDUS KENIENSIS, new subspecies 

 Mount Kenia Bulbul 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 215281 ; U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 collected at the altitude of 8,500 feet, on Mount Kenia, British 

 East Africa, October 10, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original 

 number, 17066.) 



Characters. — More closely resembling Phyllastrephus placidus 

 placidus Shelley from Mount Kilimanjaro than P. p. grotei from 

 Mikindani. It differs from grotei by the redness of its tail, and 



