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Hah. Coastal scrub-region o£ British and German East 

 Africa : Changamwe, Mombasa. 



Type. ?, Changamwe, 18. vii. 1912. Seven skins examined. 



Harpolestes senegalus mozambicus, subsp. nov. 



Nearest to H. s. orientalis from Mombasa, but paler above 

 and below, also the superciliary stripe lighter, rump greyish. 

 Size as in H. s. orientalis. 



Hah. Lumbo, Northern Mozambique. 



Type. S ad., Lumbo, 10. vii. 1918. Six compared, all 

 very constant in colour and size. 



Batis molitor taruensis, subsp nov. 



A smaller form than B. m. molitor, male with rather large 

 preorbital white spot, which is extended over the eye as a 

 broad superciliary stripe ; thus resembling somewhat the male 

 of i?. minor suahelica, but larger. Head and mantle dark 

 slaty-grey. Female with the same head-markings, and with 

 chestnut throat-patch. 



Hah. Taru Desert, Samburu, Maungu, and Changamwe. 



Type. cJ ad., Maungu, 4. viii. 1918. Seven specimens 

 examined. 



Batis soror pallidigula, subsp. nov. 



Smaller than £. soror soror, female with chest-band and 

 throat-patch much paler, not darker as in B. s. littoralis 

 Neum. from Zanzibar. Wing, ^ 51, ? 52 mm. 



Hah. Lumbo in North Mozambique (also coastal districts 

 of German and Vanga in British East Africa). 



Type. ? , Lumbo, 17. vii. 1918. 



Smithornis rufolateralis budongoensis, subsp. nov. 



? differs from S. ruf. rufolateralis from Kamerun in 

 having a smaller bill and the top of the head dark ashy (with 

 blackish centres to the feathers), and not brown. 



Hah. Budongo Forest and Bugoma. Only three females 

 examined. 



Type. ?, Budongo Forest, 17. ii. 1907. L. M. Seth-Smith 

 leg. 



