8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 65 



Remarks. — I can find no previous name applicable to the present 

 subspecies. Following is a list of the names which have been pro- 

 posed for the whole species africanus; those preceded by an asterisk 

 (*) are currently recognized as valid subspecies: 

 * Africanus (Cursorius) Temminck, 1807. Cat. Syst. Cab. d'Orn., 



1807, pp. 175, 263 ( Namaqualand, Southwestern Africa). 

 Collaris (Tac hydro mus) Vieillot, 1817. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. 



8, 181 7, p. 293 (Africa). 

 Bicinctus (Cursorius) Temminck, i82g. Man. d'Orn., Vol. 2, 1829, 



p. 515 (Interior of Africa). 

 Grallator (Cursorius) Leadbeater, 1830. Trans. Linn. Soc, N. S., 

 Vol. 16, 1830, read December 20, 1825, p. 92 (type-locality not 

 mentioned) . 

 *Bisignatus (Cursorius) Hartlaub, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1865, p. 87 (Benguela, Angola). 

 ^Gracilis (Cursorius) Fischer and Reichenow, 1884. Journ. fiir 



Ornith., 1884, p. 178 (Masailand). 

 *Hartingi (Rhinoptilus) Sharpe, 1893. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. 



3, 1893, p. xiv (Somaliland, East Africa). 

 *Sharpei (Rhinoptilus africanus) Erlanger, 1905. Journ. fiir 

 Ornith., 1905, p. 59 (type-locality not given, but fixed by C. H. 

 B. Grant, 1 who designated Deelfontein, central Cape Colony, 

 as the particular type locality) . 

 *Raffertyi (Rhinoptilus africanus) Mearns, 1915. Smithsonian Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections, Vol. 65, No. 13, 1915, p. 7 (Iron Bridge, 

 Hawash Valley, Abyssinia). 



SAROTHRURA LORINGI, new species 

 Loring's Rail or Crake 



Type-specimen. — Adult female, Cat. No. 214680, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on the west side of Mount Kenia, at the altitude of 8,500 

 feet, in British East Africa, October 13, 1909, by J. Alden Loring. 

 (Original number, 439.) 



Characters. — This form belongs to the group including Sarothrura 

 r'eichenovi 2 and 5". buryi? all of which will probably prove to be sub- 



1 Ibis, 1915, p. 61. 



2 Corethrura reichenovi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. 23, 1894, p. 121 

 ("Cameroons, W. Africa"). 



3 Sarothrura buryi Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. 21, No. 143, 

 1908, p. 93 ("Dubar, Wagga Mountains, Somaliland"). 



