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southern Kenya Colony and northern Tanganyika Territory, 

 and find them to be sufficiently different to be worthy of nomen- 

 clatural recognition. The northern race may be known as 



Macronyx aurantiigula subocularis, subsp. nov. 



Type. — U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 246154; adult female, collected in the Tharaka 

 district, Kenya Colony, on August 12, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. 



Subspecific Characters. — Similar to the typical form, but with the posterior 

 half of the superciliary stripes white instead of yellow and with a band of 

 white running from the bill under the eye just dorsal to the black margin of 

 the yellow throat patch. In the nominate form this area is yellow. In size 

 the two forms are alike. 



Range. — Known from the Tharaka district and the Tana 

 River. 



Material examined. — M. a. aurantiigula, 5 adults; M. a. 

 subocularis, 2 adults. 



Literature Cited. 



Gyldenstolpe, Nils. 



1924. Zoological results of the Swedish expedition to central Africa 1921. 

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SCLATER, W. L. 



1930. Systema avium iEthiopicarum. Pt. 2. London: published for 

 the British Ornithologists' Union. 



VAN SOMEREN, V. G. L. 



1922. Notes on the birds of East Africa. Nov. Zool. 29 : 1-246. 



