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ZOSTEROPS POLIOGASTRA ERLANGERI, Subsp. n. 



Zosterops poliogaster, Sharpe (nee Heugl.), Cat. Birds 

 B. M. ix. p. 169 (1884) [part.J ; Beiehenow, Vog, Afr. iii. 

 p. 434 (1905). 



Adult male and female. Differ from all other species of 

 Zosterops from Africa with a grey or whitish breast and 

 belly in having the forehead and whole fore-part of the 

 crown golden-yellow. For further description the above 

 quotations may be compared. 



Named in honour of the late Baron Carlo v. Erlanger. 



Hab. High mountains of South Ethiopia (Shoa^ Harar, 

 Arussi Mountains, and the Omo Region) . 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . Gadat in Gofa, 

 31.i. 01 : O. Neumann coll. 



Obs. The true Z. poliogastra, Heugl._, from the Simen Mts. 

 in North Abyssinia (of which the three typical specimens, 

 kindly lent by Prof. Lampert of Stuttgart and Dr. van 

 Oort of Leyden, were exhibited), had a yellow superciliary 

 stripe, which was much exaggerated in the figure given in 

 the 'Ibis,'' 1861, pi. xiii., but scarcely any yellow on the 

 forehead. It more nearly resembled Z. annulosa (Svv.) 

 ( = Z. capensis, Sund.) and Z. madagascariensis, L., than 

 Z.p. erlangeri ; but some specimens from Shoa and the Harar 

 Mountains seemed to be intermediate. 



Mr. W. B. Ogilvie-Grant made a few remarks regarding 

 some of the birds which Prof. Neumann had just described 

 as new. He said that the Members of the Club had been 

 told that certain forms, such as '' Turdinus pyrrhopterus 

 kivuensis," were well-marked subspecies, but he wished those 

 present to have an opportunity of judging for themselves 

 whether such was really the case. He had, therefore, brought 

 with him a series of specimens of Turdinus pyrrhopterus 

 (Beich. & Neumann), and of the so-called T. p. kivuensis, 

 Neumann, displayed in such a way that the distinctive 

 characters said to be found in the coloration of the head 

 could be easily seen and compared. The description of 

 the latter form [vide supra, p. 55) was based on a single 



