1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 493 



a. $ imm. Sassabanna, July 31, 1894. 



h. S ad. Stonvbrook, Aug. 19, 1894. Iris light brown. 



c. 2 ad. Sbebeli, Aug. 29, 1894. 



Found by Heuglin in the Abyssinian lowlands and the Bogos 

 district. Antinori procured the species at Ambo-Karra in Shoa 

 in March, Mr. Jackson in the Ukanbani country in February, and 

 Dr. Eeichenow records it from the Pangani River, Kakoma, 

 Igonda, Uesure, Irangi, and Ugalla. 



Fam. Capitonid^. 



105. Teachtphontjs shelleti. 



Trachyphomis eryihrocephaliis (nee Cab.), Shelley, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 394 (Somali plateau) ; Salvad. Mem. E. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. 

 p. 551 (1894). 



a. 2 ad. Milmil, July 26, 1894. 



h. (S ad. Darro Mountains, Nov. 19, ) .94. Iris brown : bill 

 pale reddish brown. 



Compared wth the type this bird is much larger. It measures 

 total length 8-2 inches, culmen 1-0, wing 3-5, tail 3-1. In T. shelleyi 

 the culmen is 0-85, wing 3*1, tail 2-8. 



The female appears to differ from the female of T. eri/throcepha- 

 lus in having the base of the forehead sulphur-yellosv continued 

 into a broad eyebrow, and in having more sulphur-yellow on the 

 fore part of the cheeks and throat. 



106. Teachyphonus ueoptgialis. 



Trachyphonus urojjygialis, Salvad. Mem. Accad. Tor. (2) xliv. 

 p. 551 (1894). 



a. 2 ad. Dabulli, Sept. 16, 1894. Iris dark brown ; cere 

 black ; bill greyish horn-colour ; legs grey. 



Count Salvadori has separated this species on account of the 

 lateral upper tail-coverts being crimson ; but all our six specimens 

 of T. boehmi in the British Museum show this peculiarity, and I 

 very much doubt if T. uropyglaUs is distinct. The Somali bird has, 

 however, the rump sulphur-yellow, with minute spots of black, which 

 are not seen in T. boehmi, but are apparent in T. arnaudi. 



107. Teichol^jia stigmatothobax. 



Tricholcema stigmatothoracc. Cab. : Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 394; id. 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 29, pi. ii. fig. i (1821); Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 509 ; Eeichen. Yog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 116 (1894). 



a. Ad. Sillul, Aug. 6, 1894. Iris black; legs dark slate- 

 colour. 



This species was not known to Heuglin or the Italian explorers 

 of Shoa, but was found by Mr. Jackson in the Teita country, and 

 is recorded by Dr. Eeichenow from the Pangani and Eonga Elvers, 

 Nguruman, Aruscha, and the eastern slope of Kihma-njaro. 



