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Ear-coverts buff, with marginal feathers brown-black tipped, 

 forraiug a line o£ demarcation. Entire throat white, breast 

 and lower surface of body white, with conspicuous large 

 triangular black spots on the breast, lessening in size on the 

 sides o£ body and lower breast and again increasing on the 

 flanks. Under tail-coverts buffy-white. Thighs buff\, with 

 black spots. Under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 

 Culmen 11 mm., wings, 66, tarsus 16. 



Hab. Sokoke Forest on coast of B.E.^. In' forest, 

 keeping to the more open areas of undergrowth. 



Type, c? , Sokoke Forest, 14. 1. 21, in Tring Museum. 

 Five specimens. 



Mirafra fischeri kawirondensis, subsp. nov. 



Very much like M. f. fischeri and M. f. zonibce (which is 

 closely allied to M. f. fischeri) from the coast-region, but is 

 much more blackish. There are also two colorations, some 

 birds being more blackish, others browner. The blackish 

 ones have no bars, brown ones show them more or less. 

 Wings : (? 78-81, ? 74-80 mm. 



Hab. Kisumu, Karungu, Kendu Bay, Kibigori, also 

 Sovoti and Entebbe. 



Type. (^ , Kisumu, 9. xii. 1917. Tring Museum. 



Callene sokokensis, sp. nov. 



Allied to C. cequatoralis Jackson, from which it differs by 

 its smaller size, much paler orange-yellow underside and 

 whiter breast and abdomen, less olive-greenish mantle, and 

 by having the lores greyish-white and the superciliary stripe 

 grey, and also the lesser wing-coverts grey. 



Type. ? , Sokoke Forest, coast of B.E.A., 21. 1. 21, in 

 Tring Museum. Three specimens. 



Centropus superciliosus intermedins, subsp. nov. 



Differs from the typical South-Arabian bird in being 

 darker above and smaller. Wings 140-155 mm. 



Type. S adult, 12. iv. 19, Mombasa, van Someren coll. in 

 Tring Museum. 



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