119 [Vol. xliii. 



back, throat, chest, arnd flanks. Wing 77 to 80 ram. (Whig 

 of type of A. a. keniana^ cJ, 70 mm.) 



Hab. Southern part of Kenya Colony and Kilimanjaro 

 District; Tsavo, Campi-ya-bibi, Taveta, Kitui, Moschi. 



Type, S' Campi-ya-bibi, 27. vi. 1918. V. G-. L. van 

 Someren coll. 



Dr. van Someren (Nov. Zool. 1922, p. 235) called these 

 birds A. ayhneri mentalis, without having seen specimens 

 from Soporo and Mpapua in south-western Tanganyika 

 Territory. Now Mr. Loveridge sent three A. a. mentalis, 

 and has thus shown us the right way, and therefore I have 

 named the East-African form after him. Van Someren also 

 says that he had two topotypical A. a. keniana which were 

 " rather less rufous on the mantle than on southern speci- 

 mens,''^ and he " doubted if it was a good race." His 

 statement of the paler coloration of Kenia specimens, how- 

 ever, confirms the distinctness of the form here described. 

 A. a. mentalis Rchw. is very much greyer and paler, there 

 being only rufous colour on the crown, and is strikingly 

 different from A. aylmeri, keniana, and loveridgei. 



Messrs. Herbeet C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss for- 

 warded the following description of a new race of Minivet 

 from Annam : — 



Pericrocotus brevirostris annamensis, subsp. nov. 



Pericrocotus brevirostris Robinson & Kloss, Ibis, 1919, 

 p. 452. 



Nearest to P. afnis (McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 157), 

 of Assam, N. Burma, and the Shan States, and P. neglectus 

 (Hume, ' Stray Feathers,' 1877, p. 171), of Muleyit, Tenas- 

 serim ; but the females differing in having the forehead dull 

 orange-yellow and the throat yellow tinged with orange. 

 From females of P. h. styani Baker, of Sechuan (Bull. 

 B.O.C. xl. 1920, p. 117*), they differ in their orange- 



* Probably a synonym of P. h. ethologus Bangs & Phillips, of Hupeh 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, Iviii. 1914, p. 283). 



