6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



STELGIDOCICHLA LATIROSTRIS SATURATA, new subspecies 



Saturated Bulbul 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 215274, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on the Honi River, south-west base of Mount Kenia, Brit- 

 ish East Africa, September 17, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Orig- 

 inal number, 16841.) 



Characters. — Most closely related to Stelgidocichla latirostris 

 eugenia (Reichenow), from the Victoria Nyanza region, but larger, 

 more intensely colored, and more yellowish olive above and below. 



Description of adult male and female. — Entire top and sides of 

 head dark olive ; upper side of neck, mantle, outer wing-coverts, 

 and outer web of inner secondaries huffy olive ; wing-quills brown- 

 ish olive edged with ecru-olive; upper back buffy olive, gradually 

 changing on lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers 

 to medal bronze; rectrices obscurely edged, externally, with olive- 

 lake ; chin and upper throat amber-yellow ; chest, sides, flanks, and 

 thighs yellowish olive ; middle of abdomen olive-yellow ; edge of 

 wing, axillars, and under wing-coverts olive-ocher ; inner border of 

 quills yellowish pale smoke-gray. In dry specimens the bill is 

 brownish black ; tarsi brownish white ; toes and claws dark brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 193 mm.; 

 wing, 91 ; length of spurious primary, 32 ; tail, 91 ; culmen (chord), 

 14.5 ; bill from anterior border of nostril, 9 ; width of bill opposite 

 posterior border of nostril, 8 ; tarsus, 23. 



Average measurements of five adult males of Stelgidocichla lati- 

 rostris saturata. — Wing, 90.6 ; tail, 87.2 ; culmen (chord.) 14.5, tarsus, 

 2.2.2.. 



Average measurements of three adult males of Stelgidocichla 

 latirostris eugenia. — Wing, 88; tail, 82.67; culmen (chord), 15.33; 

 tarsus, 20.83. 



