428 NOVITATBS ZOOtOOIOAE XXVII. 1920. 



359. Atachnothera longirostra rothschildi Ooit = Arachnothera longirostra 



rothschildi. 



Arachnothera longiroslra rothschildi van Oort, Notes Leyien, Mus. xxxii. p. 195 (1910 — ^Natana 

 Islands, Bunguian). 



Type (marked as rothschildi by van Oort, who had only our 10 Natuna 

 specimens) : $ ad., Bunguran Islaild, September 1893. Alfred Everett leg. 



360. Atachnothera juliae Sharpe = Arachnothera juliae. 

 Arachnothera juliae Sharpe, Ibis, 1887. p. 451. pi. xiv. (Kina Balu, Borneo). 



Type: ^ ad., Kina Balu, 3,000 feet, 19. ii. 1887. John Whitehead leg. 

 No. 984. 



361. Anthreptes longmari angolensis Neum. = Anthreptes longmari angolensis, 

 Anthreptes longmari angolensis Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1906. p. 246 (Angola). 



Type: ^ ad., Duque de Braganza, northern Angola, 31.vii.l903. W. J. 

 Ansorge leg. No. 838. 



This form seems to be all right, but requires further confirmation, because of 

 its variability. 



362. Cinnyris souimanga apolis Hart., subsp. nov. 

 Subspeciei Cinnyris souimanga souimanga dictae similis sed difiert abdomine pallidiore, sulfurescente. 



Years ago Lord Rothschild bought from a dealer in Paris, now deceased, a 

 number of beautiful skins from Madagascar, aU labelled " C. 0. Madagascar,'' 

 which, judging from the species and subspecies it contained, must mean Cote 

 occidentale, i.e. west coast of Madagascar. Out of this collection Professor 

 Neumann described a new form of Ahhotornis, calling it Ahhotornis schistocercus 

 (Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 11, 1908), and it contains the light form of Mirafra 

 Jiova known to inhabit West Madagascar. In this lot are also three males of 

 Cinnyris souimanga, which differ from a series of 13 from various other parts 

 of Madagascar in the Tring Museum, and about as many in the British Museum, 

 by having the abdomen pale sulphur-yellow instead of more or less rich yellow, 

 the flanks much paler, not olivaceous, and the ornamental pectoral tufts of a 

 lighter yeUow. Unfortunately the exact locality of these birds is not known, 

 therefore the name apolis, meaning homeless. It is true that in the description 

 of Brisson, from whom Gmelin took his souimanga, the abdomen is described as 

 pale yeUow, and that in Audebert & Vieillot's Oiseaux dories it is not bright, not 

 clear, light, sulphur-yellow as in apolis, but dirty as in aldabranus ; but at that 

 time specimens were not preserved as they are nowadays, and often faded (perhaps 

 from spirits), so that the descriptions must be taken cum grano salis. 



Type : c? ad., west coast of Madagascar. Purchased in Paris. " Native 

 name Sohy." 



363. Anthreptes malaccensis wiglesworthi Hart. = Anthreptes malaccensis 



wiglesworthi. 

 Anthreptes malaccensis wiglesworthi Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 209 (1902— Sulu Islands). 

 Type : S ad., Sulu Island, l.y. 1883. Dr. Powell leg. 



