Vol. xliii.] 86 



No. 796): B.M. rcg. no. 95.9.1.1983. ll.ii.'72. Accra, 

 Gold Coast. 



" Range. Coastal regions of the Gold Coast Colony. 



" Observation. The Senegal Swallows from other parts of 

 Africa — notably Uganda, Kenya Colony, and S.Abyssinia — 

 ;ire more difficult to name. They are certainly rather darker 

 thp.n typical examples, but are not nearly so dark as H. s. 

 suturatior. Dr. van Someren has recently described a race of 

 this Swallow from East Africa which he calls H. s. hybrida, 

 but this bird has white spots on the tail-feathers as in //. s. 

 monteiri and cannot be confused with the birds which are 

 not so marked. 



" We have therefore the following races of H. sene- 

 galensis : — 



1. H. senegalensis senegalensis, Linn. Type-locality, Senegal. 



2. ,, „ saturatior, Bannerm. „ „ Accra, 



Gold Coast. 



3. „ „ monteiri, Hartl. „ „ Angola. 



4. „ ,, lighrida, van Som. „ „ Tsavo, 



Kenya Colony." 



Mr. N. KuRODA forwards the following descriptions of 

 new subspecies from Japan : — 



Garrulus glandarius orii, subsp. no v. 



Diagnosis. Resembling G. glandarius japonicus o^ Hondo. 

 but distinguished by the much deeper coloration of the bodj. 

 The white patches distinctly present on the outer webs of 

 the fourth secondary, although small in amount (22 mm. 

 long), and somewhat washed with bluish instead of pure 

 white, but entirely absent on the fifth, on which in a few 

 cases the patches are present in G. g. japonicus ; the beau- 

 tiful cross-bands on the bastard-wing and primarj'-coverts 

 distinctly darker and wholly destitute of white ; the lesser 

 wing-coverts much darker : the ear-coverts verv dark 

 vinous, nearly blackish in the anterior parts ; sides of neck 

 and l)ack distinctly washed with dusky, especially the lower 



