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instead of black. Thus on the upperside it resembles 

 0. stuJilmanni, while underneath it is like 0. e. emini. 



Hab. Budongo (type), Masindi, Bugoma. 



Type, c?, Busindi near Budongo, 7.vi. 1919. Tring 

 Museum. 



Lamprocolius sycobius pestis, subsp. nov. 



Larger than L. s. sycohius : wing, ^ 130-135, ? 120- 

 125 mm. Abdomen purplish ; well-developed bright purplish- 

 red shoulder-patch and very well-defined purplish-blue ear- 

 coverts. 



Hab. Mombasa, Samburu, Maungu, NMi. 



Type. Samburu, 18. x. 1917. Tring Museum. 



Lamprocolius corruscus mandanus, subsp. nov. 



Bills much slenderer ; wings 100-105 mm. In colour 

 like L. corruscus corruscus. {Lamjorotornis corrusca Nordm. 

 is an older name for L. melanogaster, as shown by Neumann, 

 Orn. Monatsber, 1910, p. 9.) 



Hab. Lamu, Manda, M'koi, Mombasa. 



Type. (J, Manda, 22. iv. 1916, in my collection. 



Anthus sokokensis, sp. nov. 

 Head and mantle black, with broad buff edges to the 

 feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous-buff with 

 black centres to the feathers; central pair of rectrices 

 yellow, slightly darker along the shaft ; outer pair white on 

 outer web, inner web black, except terminal half, which is 

 white, which colour is graduated up the shaft to basal third; 

 penultimate pair buff on outer web with tip of inner white 

 for 12 mm. ; rest of inner web blackish ; remainder of tail- 

 feathers blackish with rusty-buff margins ; all feathers 

 pointed. Primaries blackish brown, with a wide whitish 

 inner margin to the basal half of inner webs. Secondaries 

 darker brown-black, broadly margined with buff. Greater 

 coverts and scapulars blackish, with paler buff edges and 

 broad buff tips. Median wing-coverts black, with con- 

 spicuous buffy-white tips. Lesser wing-coverts black, with 

 buff edges and tips. Lores buff, with a few black specks. 



